Trace 01
CPS multiple jobholding: a weekly ink line 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.
Drum Trace
Independent notes on how published research leaves continuous measurement traces of secondary earnings and platform work on household income instruments
A barograph-style desk for method: named sources, calibration marks, coverage limits on the chart—and no assumption about any reader’s circumstances.
Station · Drum 01 · Sep 2026
On this drum
Three recorded traces
Notes review published instruments and papers on secondary jobs, platform-mediated work and how household surveys register those flows across time—not income playbooks.
Household surveys, administrative records and international measurement guidance are compared with methodological critique in the same text.
Drum Trace does not publish testimonials, reviews or outcome stories. The desk describes how others measure; it does not prescribe conduct or forecast effects.
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Trace 02
OECD platform-work pilots: calibration marks before a count enters the drum
How international measurement pilots define platform-mediated work before it enters employment or income statistics.
Trace 03
BLS Contingent Worker Supplement: intermittent bumps 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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- Method critique on the page. Each note states sample, definition or coverage limits; findings are not presented as universal conclusions.
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Short editorial notes that summarize how named public instruments and research papers measure secondary earnings and platform-mediated work over time.
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