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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
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The STEP Skills Measurement Program
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Jun 30, 2014
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Apr 08, 2016
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Why did you stop this wage job? (m4c_q15)

Data file: STEP Colombia_working

Overview

Valid: 628
Invalid: 1989
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 5593
End: 5594
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 88
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Why did you stop this wage job?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 you were fired 40
6.4%
2 enterprise you worked for closed 54
8.6%
3 wanted to start own business/own economic activity 115
18.3%
4 low wage/bad working conditions 101
16.1%
5 retired 13
2.1%
6 you moved to another area 21
3.3%
7 end of contract 87
13.9%
8 family, health, personal reasons 162
25.8%
9 employer reduced work hours 2
0.3%
10 to continue education 14
2.2%
11 other (specify) 13
2.1%
88 6
1%
Sysmiss 1989
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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