STEP Skills Measurement Household Survey 2012 (Wave 1)
Sri Lanka, 2012
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Reference ID
LKA_2012_STEP-HH_v02_M
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Why did you stop working? (m4a_q24)
Data file: STEP Sri_Lanka_working
Overview
Valid:
333
Invalid:
2656
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1338
End:
1339
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 14
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Module 4: Employment
Part A: Labor Force Participation
Q24. What was the main reason you stopped working?
Part A: Labor Force Participation
Q24. What was the main reason you stopped working?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | you were fired | 4 |
1.2%
|
| 2 | enterprise you worked for closed | 8 |
2.4%
|
| 3 | your own business / economic actvity failed | 10 |
3%
|
| 4 | low wage/bad working conditions | 17 |
5.1%
|
| 5 | you moved to another area | 19 |
5.7%
|
| 6 | end of contract/ business slowdown | 13 |
3.9%
|
| 7 | family, health, personal reasons | 228 |
68.5%
|
| 8 | employer reduced your work hours | 1 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | to continue education | 8 |
2.4%
|
| 10 | retired | 23 |
6.9%
|
| 11 | other (specify) | 2 |
0.6%
|
| 12 | Because of wanting to be entitled for the 10 year pension af | 0 |
0%
|
| 14 | The company relocated | 0 |
0%
|
| Sysmiss | 2656 |
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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