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Hi there,

I want to study the sample out of work with a long-term disability.
To measure this variable, is there an indicator for a reason out of work? Or do I need to combine unemployment with long-term illness by myself?

I saw employmentstatushistory_w5.leshst has this specific reason, but only wave 1 and wave 5 have this question. Also, this is in the empstat data, to use this indicator, do I need to merge it with the indresp dataset?

Thanks for the help!

Best,
Huihui