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VIII National Population and Housing Census, 2002 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 2002
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Reference ID
DOM_2002_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Available for work (DO2002A_AVAILWK)

Data file: DOM2002_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 301
End: 301
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">For persons of 10 years old and more</span></p>

<p>If the answer to questions 46 or 47 or 48 was "yes", skip to question 59.</p>

<p>57. At the present time, would [the respondent] be willing to work if offered a job? </p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes <br />[] 2 No (Skip to question 59)</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="em">For people age 10 or older </span></p>

<p><span class="em">Question 57: Currently, would (NAME) work if he/she was offered a job?</span></p>

<p>1. If the person is available to work if he/she was offered a paid job, record "Yes" and then continue to question 58.
<br />2. If the person is not available to work even if there is a paid job offer, record "No", and then skip to question 59.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates that a person is available for work, in that they would take work if it were offered to them.
Universe
Dominican Republic 2002: Persons age 10+ who did not work or look for work last week [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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