The World Bank Working for a World Free of Poverty Microdata Library
  • Data Catalog
  • About
  • Collections
  • Citations
  • Terms of use
  • Login
    Login
    Home / Central Data Catalog / STEP / LKA_2012_STEP-HH_V02_M / variable [V7677]
step

STEP Skills Measurement Household Survey 2012 (Wave 1)

Sri Lanka, 2012
Get Microdata
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
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Jun 30, 2014
Last modified
Apr 05, 2016
Page views
143951
Downloads
13796
  • Study Description
  • Data Description
  • Documentation
  • Get Microdata
  • Related citations
  • Data files
  • STEP
    Sri_Lanka_HH
    Roster_s10_final
  • STEP
    Sri_Lanka_working

Main reason you did not look for job - other (m4a_q09_other)

Data file: STEP Sri_Lanka_working

Overview

Valid: 10
Invalid: 2979
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1104
End: 1153
Width: 50
Range: 1 - 17
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Module 4: Employment
Part A: Labor Force Participation

Q9. What is the main reason you did not look for work in the past 4 weeks? (Most important reason) Other (specify)
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 student/pupil 0
0%
2 housewife 0
0%
3 in retirement 0
0%
4 old age 0
0%
5 ill/handicapped 0
0%
7 do not want to work 0
0%
8 have already found a job which will start later 0
0%
9 awaiting response from employer 0
0%
10 awaiting recall by employer 0
0%
11 waiting for busy season 0
0%
12 believe i do not have any chance to get a job 0
0%
13 there are no jobs 0
0%
14 other (specify) 0
0%
15 Getting pregnant 3
30%
16 Because of personal reasons 6
60%
17 Don’t have the necessary tools 1
10%
Sysmiss 2979
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.
Question post text
Other (specify) 14 >>Q13
Back to Catalog
The World Bank Working for a World Free of Poverty
  • IBRD IDA IFC MIGA ICSID

© The World Bank Group, All Rights Reserved.

This site uses cookies to optimize functionality and give you the best possible experience. If you continue to navigate this website beyond this page, cookies will be placed on your browser. To learn more about cookies, click here.