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Whether workers not employed full-time at a job say they want a full-time job; SHED wording varies slightly across years (past tense in 2017-2018, present tense in 2019).
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: 70% answered “No” in Fed SHED: Wants a full-time job, 2019.
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: Wants a full-time job | Wants a full-time job You indicated that you do not work full-time at this job. Do you want a full-time job? Caveat: Present-tense wording in 2019; same meaning and scale | equivalent | No → No; Yes → Yes |
| Fed SHED: Wanted a full-time job | Wanted a full-time job You indicated that you did not work full-time at this job. Did you want a full-time job? Caveat: Past-tense wording (2017-2018) | identical | No → No; Yes → Yes |