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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Looked for work previous week (DO2002A_LOOKLW)

Data file: DOM2002_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 299

End: 299

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For persons of 10 years old and more

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

55. Last week, did [the respondent] seek work for payment or gain, or try to establish his/her own business or enterprise?
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes (Skip to question 59) [] 2 No</div>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No
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

For people age 10 or older 

Question 55: During the last week, was (NAME) looking for a paid job or trying to establish his/her own business or company?

This question should be posed only if the interviewee answered "No" in questions 46, 47 and 48.
 If the answer is "Yes" fill it in and skip to question 59.
 If the answer is "No" fill it in and continue to the following question.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates that a person looked for work in the previous week.

Universe

Dominican Republic 2002: Persons age 10+ who did not work last week [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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