Sheet 01
CPS secondary-job frames: what the household interview captures when earnings sit beside the main job
How the Current Population Survey structures multiple jobholding questions and where side earnings can fall outside the frame.
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Independent notes on how published research composes secondary earnings and platform work into household income accounts
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Notes review published instruments and papers on secondary jobs, platform-mediated work and how household surveys file those flows—not income playbooks.
Household surveys, administrative records and international measurement guidance are compared with methodological critique in the same text.
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Sheet 02
ILO guidance on digital platform employment: definitions that must hold before a count is composed
What international measurement guidelines require before platform-mediated work is entered into employment statistics.
Sheet 03
Abraham and colleagues: composing survey answers beside administrative traces of nontraditional earnings
Lessons from the survey–tax gap literature when secondary income appears more clearly in records than in interviews.
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