STEP Skills Measurement Household Survey 2012 (Wave 1)

Colombia, 2012

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Reference ID

COL_2012_STEP-HH_v02_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/tcyg-kt74

Producer(s)

World Bank

Collection(s)

The STEP Skills Measurement Program

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Jun 30, 2014

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what was the main reason you stopped this wage job? (m4a_q28)

Data file: STEP Colombia_working

Overview

Valid: 38

Invalid: 2579

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 2536

End: 2537

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

In this section we are trying to get a picture of your work history and the type of work you could be qualified to do.

Literal question

What was the main reason you stopped this wage job?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	you were fired	1	2.6%
2	enterprise you worked for closed	5	13.2%
3	wanted to start own business/own business/own economic activity	6	15.8%
4	low wage/bad working conditions	6	15.8%
5	retired	0	0%
6	you moved to another area	1	2.6%
7	end of contract	4	10.5%
8	family, health, personal reasons	14	36.8%
9	employer reduced work hours	0	0%
10	to continue education	0	0%
11	other (specify)	1	2.6%
Sysmiss		2579

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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