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15th General Population and Housing Census
IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Italy, 2011
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Reference ID
ITA_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
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Actively seeking work during the last 4 weeks (IT2011A_WKSEEK)

Data file: ITA2011_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 221
End: 221
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">6. Vocational or non-vocational status</span></p>

<p>[These questions are asked of individuals aged 15 years and over]</p>

<p>6.3 During the period from September 11th - October 08th, were you actively seeking employment or did you set up the means to start your own business?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No [skip to question 6.13]</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person was actively seeking job or set up his/her own business during the last 4 weeks.
Universe
Italy 2011: Persons age 15+ who did not work and were not absent from their job last week [discrepancies: none]

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Concept
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