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SMOKEPOLICY
Employer has policy that restricts smoking
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Description

For sample persons aged 18 and over, SMOKEPOLICY reports if smoking was allowed at their workplace (in the 1988 survey) or if the respondent had an employer who had an official policy to restrict smoking in any way (1991 onwards).

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Comparability

Changes in the universe limit the comparability of this variable.

Universe

  • 1988: Sample persons age 18+ who are currently working
  • 1991: Sample persons age 18+ who were employed during the past 2 weeks and work for a private company or the federal, state, or local government but did not work in the past two weeks OR who worked 1+ hour or an unknown number of hours in the past 2 weeks and work in a private enclosed office with door, a shared office with door, a cubicle with full or mid-height partitions, an open office area, one building but no regular work area, or outdoors.
  • 1992: Half of sample persons age 18+ in quarters 1 and 2, and in 2 weeks of quarter 3 (excluded from CAEP supplement) who were employed during the past 2 weeks, work for a private company or the federal, state, or local government, and work in a private enclosed office with door, a shared office with door, a cubicle, an open area, a classroom, a hospital (not an office), in a home, one building but no regular work area, outdoors, or whose type of work area was "other" or unknown.
  • 1993: Half of sample persons age 18+ in quarters 3 and 4 (excluded from AIDS supplement) who were employed during the past 2 weeks, work for a private company or the federal, state, or local government, and work mainly indoors.
  • 1994: Half of sample persons age 18+ (excluded from AIDS supplement) who were employed during the past 2 weeks, work for a private company or the federal, state, or local government, and work mainly indoors.
  • 1998; 2000: Sample adults age 18+ who were employed last week, work for a private company or the federal, state, or local government, and work mainly indoors.

Availability

  • 1988, 1991-1994, 1998, 2000

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