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Whether people who lost work, were laid off, or were told not to work in 2020 expected to return to the same employer, from the SHED's April, July, and November 2020 surveys.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 47% answered “No, do not expect to return” in Fed SHED: Expecting to return to the same employer after layoff, 2020.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fed SHED: Expect to return to same employer after job loss | Expect to return to same employer after job loss Do you expect to return to the same job that you had before you lost a job, were laid off or were told not to work? Caveat: Asks about same job, not employer; broader context (lost job, laid off, or told not to work) | equivalent | No, do not expect to return to the same employer → No, do not expect to return; Yes, employer expressed this is temporary but did not provide a return date → Yes, expected but no return date; Yes, employer provided definite return date → Yes, with definite return date; Yes, already returned to work for the same employer → Yes, already returned |
| Fed SHED: Expecting to return to the same employer after layoff | Expecting to return to the same employer after layoff Do you expect to return to the same employer that you worked for before you were laid off? Caveat: Asks about same employer after layoff; identical options | identical | No, do not expect to return to the same employer → No, do not expect to return; Yes, employer expressed this is temporary but did not provide a return date → Yes, expected but no return date; Yes, employer provided definite return date → Yes, with definite return date; Yes, already returned to work for the same employer → Yes, already returned |