Survey of Living Conditions 1988

Jamaica, 1988

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Reference ID

JAM_1988_SLC_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistical Institute of Jamaica, Planning Institute of Jamaica

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

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Jun 18, 2015

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Employment status in your last job (q517)

Data file: LABORF

Overview

Valid: 1741

Invalid: 7288

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 148

End: 148

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Employee of Central or Local Govt	72	4.1%
2	Employee of other Government Agencies	21	1.2%
3	Employee of Private Sector Business	383	22%
4	Unpaid worker	12	0.7%
5	Employer	1	0.1%
6	Own Account Worker	256	14.7%
7	Never worked	989	56.8%
8	Not reported	7	0.4%
Sysmiss		7288

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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