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XVI National Population and V de Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1993 - 1994
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COL_1993_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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  • COL1993_PHC-H-H.dat
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Class of worker (CO1993A_CLASSWK)

Data file: COL1993_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 228
End: 228
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="CO93A425 CO93A426 CO93A427 CO93A428"><span class="h2">F3. Ask these questions of all persons who are ten years old or more.</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CO93A428"><span class="em">39. In this job, he/she was</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Worker (professional or manual labor)<br />[] 2 Owner, employer<br />[] 3 Own-account worker<br />[] 4 Domestic employee<br />[] 5 Family worker</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Worker (professional or manual labor)
2 Owner, employer
3 Own-account worker
4 Domestic employee
5 Family worker
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
<svar v="CO93A425 CO93A426 CO93A427 CO93A428"><span class="h3">F3. Ask these questions to all persons 10 years old or older</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CO93A428"><span class="em">39. In this job [the respondent] is or was:</span><br /><br />Mark a single option taking into account the following criteria:<br /><br />[Below the text is a form.]<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Worker, employee</span><br />A person who works or has worked for a private employer or the government for a salary in money or in kind.<br /><br />Directors and administrators in the front of entities or companies are considered employees if they do not own the business.<br /><br /><span class="em">Owner, employer</span><br />A person who directs their own company or runs for their own account a profession or trade using one or more remunerated employees.<br /><br />Heads of household by having one or more workers at the service of the household are not considered "patron" or employer.<br /><br /><span class="em">Own-account worker</span><br />They are persons who run for their own account a profession or trade or manage their own company, without using any remunerated worker. They can work alone, with associates of equal condition or using non remunerated family workers.<br /><br /><span class="em">Domestic employee</span><br />It is a person who works in a single household different from their own, carrying out their own labors and receiving a salary in money or in kind, understood to be servants, nannies, housekeeper, chauffeurs, gardeners, etc.</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 173]</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">If a person works for different households, you should consider them as "worker on their own account".<br /><br /><span class="em">Family worker without remuneration</span><br />It is a person who works without remuneration in a company or agricultural or livestock exploitation of a family member.</div><br /><br />If they receive any money in a regular form that can be considered a payment, you should consider them worker or employee.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the class of the worker.
Universe
Colombia 1993: Persons with work experience [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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