STEP Skills Measurement Household Survey 2012 (Wave 1)

Sri Lanka, 2012

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Reference ID

LKA_2012_STEP-HH_v02_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/3x2b-wv98

Producer(s)

World Bank

Collection(s)

The STEP Skills Measurement Program

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Main reason for accepting job without social security (m4a_q15)

Data file: STEP Sri_Lanka_working

Overview

Valid: 92

Invalid: 2897

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1189

End: 1189

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Module 4: Employment
Part A: Labor Force Participation

Q15. What is the main reason why you would accept a job without social insurance benefits?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	above-mentioned benefits are not important to me	26	28.3%
2	i can't afford to pay the contributions	3	3.3%
3	i would accept but continue looking for a job with benefits	13	14.1%
4	i can receive more money	13	14.1%
5	my family will support me if needed	2	2.2%
6	i have no choice/ the only jobs available for me are without	34	37%
7	other (specify ______________________________________)	1	1.1%
8	because of being too young	0	0%
Sysmiss		2897

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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