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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What were you doing before this job (m4c_q04)

Data file: STEP Sri_Lanka_working

Overview

Valid: 1657

Invalid: 1332

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 2004

End: 2004

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Module 4: Employment
Part C: Main Job in Past Week

Q4. What were you doing immediately before beginning this present work as [Main Occupation ]?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	wage worker/ employee	789	47.6%
2	own economic activity or farm	219	13.2%
3	actively looking for work	121	7.3%
4	student	208	12.6%
5	housewife/ housework	202	12.2%
6	at home for pregnancy / maternity	3	0.2%
7	ill	8	0.5%
8	not working and not looking for work	105	6.3%
9	other (specify____________)	2	0.1%
10	Voluntary Teachers	0	0%
11	Helping a family member	0	0%
Sysmiss		1332

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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