Survey of Living Conditions 1993

Jamaica, 1993

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Reference ID

JAM_1993_SLC_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistical Institute of Jamaica, Planning Institute of Jamaica

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Oct 08, 2015

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Jan 30, 2020

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Employment status (Q424)

Data file: LABORF

Overview

Valid: 409

Invalid: 7839

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 144

End: 144

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Employee of central or local government	9	2.2%
2	Employee of other government agencies	9	2.2%
3	Employee of private sector business	198	48.4%
4	Unpaid worker	1	0.2%
5	Employer	3	0.7%
6	Own account worker	18	4.4%
7	Never worked	169	41.3%
8	Not reported	2	0.5%
Sysmiss		7839

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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