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Censos Nacionales IX de Población y V de Vivienda 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Costa Rica, 2000
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Reference ID
CRI_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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  • CRI2000_PHC-H-H.dat
  • CRI2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Institutional sector (CR2000A_SECTOR)

Data file: CRI2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 226
End: 226
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
For those 12 years of age and older [Applies to questions 13-18]</p>

<p><span class="em">15. What is the name of the place that ____ works? (business, institution, farm)</span><div class="i1">____ [2 blank lines. A blank box also appears in the corner of this item]</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Federal government
2 Autonomous service institution
3 Autonomous financial institution
4 Autonomous not financial institution
5 Public company
6 Municipalities
7 Private sector
8 International organizations
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="CR00A420 CR00A421 CR00A422 CR00A423 CR00A424 CR00A425 CR00A426 CR00A427 CR00A428 CR00A429 CR00A430 CR00A431 CR00A437"><span class="h3">Third Block<br /><br />Only for persons 12 years old or older</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CR00A422"><span class="em">Question 15: Name of the Company</span><br /><br />This question is expressed to know the institutional sector where the person works or worked during the reference week, whether in the Government Sector, autonomous or semiautonomous institutions, private companies, etc.<br /><br />[To the right of the text is a form.]<br /><br />For this you should write down the complete name of the work establishment and any other information that helps to determine this sector.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 70]</span><br /><br />In case the enumerated person does not know the complete name you can carry out the following recommendations:<br /><br /><div class="i1">a. If it concerns a farm, write "Agricultural farm" or "Livestock farm".<br /><br />b. If it concerns a worker of jobs in the home (domestic, gardener, cook, etc.) write down "In a family house".<br /><br />c. If the economic activity is done in their own house, write down "In their own house" (except if the business has another name).<br /><br />d. Other cases can be given of persons who do activities for their own account on foot or occasionally, in whose case all the specifications that are necessary, such as, "In the street", "Private business", "Street vendor", etc should be written down.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the institutional sector of the establishment for which the respondent worked.
Universe
Costa Rica 2000: Persons age 12+ who were employed the week prior to the census [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work: Industry Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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