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VI Censo de Población y V de Vivienda, 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Ecuador, 2001
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Reference ID
ECU_2001_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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  • ECU2001_PHC-P-H.dat

Class of worker (EC2001A_CLASSWKR)

Data file: ECU2001_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 258
End: 258
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="EC01A438">23. What was the position or job category of the work indicated?<br /><div class="i1">Read the possible answers in order and when you receive and answer, mark the corresponding box.<br /><br />[ ] 1 Owner or active partner<br />[ ] 2 Self-employed<br />Employee or salaried worker:</div><br /><div class="i2">[ ] 3 Of the municipality or provincial council<br />[ ] 4 Of the State<br />[ ] 5 Of the private sector</div><br /><div class="i1">[ ] 6 Unpaid family worker<br />[ ] 9 Don't know</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Employer or partner
2 Self-employed
3 Municpal employee
4 State [central government] employee
5 Private sector employee
6 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 a="all" v="EC01A438"><span class="em">Question 23.- What was your position or status in the occupation that you indicated?</span><br /><br />[There is a picture of question 23 from this section of the enumeration form.]<br /><br />The purpose of this question is to determine the work relationship that each person has in the job, activity, or business that they indicated in question 22.<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Owner.- </span>This the person who directs their own company or business or who practices a profession or trade and has one or more paid employees. Example: factory owner, owner of a sewing shop, etc.<br /><br /><span class="em">Active partner.- </span>Is a person who contributes by their work or by their work and capital in a given company. Example: partner in a company who contributes capital.<br /><br /><span class="em">Own-account.- </span>Is a person who runs their own company or business, profession or trade, but doesn't have employees. Example: peddler, seamstress, attorney who practices his profession without a female secretary, etc.<br /><br /><span class="em">Employee or wage-earner.- </span>Is any person who received compensation in the form of a wage, salary, daily wage, piecework pay, for work performed.</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">If the person being enumerated works for the municipality or the provincial Council, mark box 3.<br /><br />[There is a drawing of a street cleaner with box 3 checked.]<br /><br />If the person being enumerated works in a public office, mark box 4, of the State.<br /><br />If they work in a company, business, industry or other private [entity], mark box 5, of the Private Sector.</div><br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Unpaid family worker.- </span>Is a person who performs an unpaid occupation in a family member's company, plot of land, or business. Example: the wife who works in her husband's supply store, etc., without receiving any compensation.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the position or job category of the work carried out by the person during the past week.
Universe
Ecuador 2001: Persons that ever worked [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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