Bay 01
CPS Contingent Worker Supplement: what the BLS instrument can and cannot count
How the Current Population Survey supplement frames contingent and alternative arrangements, and where platform-mediated side income slips the questionnaire net.
Bay Board
Independent notes on how household surveys and related instruments measure secondary earnings and online side income
A measurement board in departure format: named sources, visible method limits, and no assumption about any reader’s circumstances.
Board status
Three reading lines
Notes review published survey instruments and research papers, not income playbooks. Focus stays on definitions, sample frames and observation bias.
Household supplements, administrative tax records and ILO measurement frameworks are compared with methodological critique in the same text.
Bay Board does not publish testimonials, reviews or outcome stories. The desk describes how others measure; it does not prescribe conduct or forecast effects.
Departures
Recent notes
Bay 02
Abraham and colleagues: the survey–administrative gap in nontraditional work
Lessons from Abraham, Haltiwanger, Sandusky and Spletzer on taxonomies, undercount risk and confusing legal form with economic activity.
Bay 03
ILO guidelines on measuring digital platform employment
How international statistical guidelines propose classifying platform-mediated work, and which field decisions still leave residual categories.