Mark 01
BLS Contingent Worker Supplement: depth marks beside the main job reading
What the CWS asks about contingent and alternative work, and where secondary earnings can sit outside the primary survey slots.
Depth Slate
Independent notes that log how published research measures secondary earnings and platform work—mark by mark, like grease pencil on a dive slate
A measurement log for method: named sources, visible coverage limits, and no assumption about any reader’s circumstances.
Dive log · Table A · Sep 2026
On this slate
Three depth marks
Notes review published instruments and papers on secondary jobs, platform-mediated work and how household surveys record those flows—not income playbooks.
Household surveys, administrative records and international measurement guidance are compared with methodological critique in the same text.
Depth Slate does not publish testimonials, reviews or outcome stories. The slate describes how others measure; it does not prescribe conduct or forecast effects.
Log entries
Recent marks
Mark 02
OECD platform-work pilots: pressure gauges that must hold before a count enters the log
How international measurement pilots define platform-mediated work before it enters employment or income statistics.
Mark 03
CPS multiple jobholding: decompression stops between first and second jobs
How the Current Population Survey records multiple jobholding and what those labels do—and do not—say about secondary earnings.
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