Plate 01
CPS multiple jobholding: a weekly stencil beside the main employment frame
How the Current Population Survey records multiple jobholding and what those weekly marks do—and do not—say about secondary earnings.
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Independent notes on how published research stencils secondary earnings and platform work onto household income instruments
A shop-rail desk for method: named sources, cut edges of coverage, rivets of citation—and no assumption about any reader’s circumstances.
Bay · Plate set 01 · Sep 2026
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Notes review published instruments and papers on secondary jobs, platform-mediated work and how household surveys register 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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Plate 02
OECD platform-work pilots: cut edges before a count enters the rack
How international measurement pilots define platform-mediated work before it enters employment or income statistics.
Plate 03
BLS Contingent Worker Supplement: intermittent masks on a continuous series
What the CWS asks about contingent and alternative work, and where secondary arrangements can appear as discrete supplement waves.
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Coverage gaps, questionnaire revisions and sampling limits appear in the same text as the findings.
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