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2000 Housing and Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Mauritius, 2000
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Reference ID
MUS_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Jul 30, 2025
Last modified
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  • MUS2000_PHC-H-H.dat
  • MUS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Have a job but was temporarily absent last week (MU2000A_WKABS)

Data file: MUS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 280
End: 280
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">[Population census form]</span></p>

<p><span class="em">For persons aged 12 years and over:</span>
<br />[Column 22 to 34 were asked of persons aged 12 years and older.]</p>

<p><span class="em">Type of activity </span>
<br />[Questions 23 through 26 relate to the type of activity a person is involved with. These questions were asked of persons aged 12 year and older.]</p>

<p>24. Was there a job, business, family enterprise or agricultural holding or farm, at which the person did not work because of illness, injury, holiday, industrial dispute, off-season inactivity, temporary disorganization, etc.?</p>
<div class="i1">If there was a job, business, enterprise or farm from which the person was temporarily absent, write 'yes' and go to column 28. If the person did not hold a job, write 'no' and continue with column 25.<br /><br />[] Yes [Continue to question 28]<br />[] No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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
<span class="h3">7. Instructions on how to fill in the census form</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Column 24 - With job but not worked</span>
<br />This question asks whether there was a job, business, family enterprise, plantation or farm at which the person did not work last week because of illness, injury, holiday, study/training leave, industrial dispute, off-season inactivity or temporary disorganization.
<br />If there was such a job, business, enterprise, plantation or farm from which the person was temporari1y absent write 'Yes' and skip to column 28.
<br />If the person did not hold a job last week, write 'No' and continue with column 25.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person had a job, but was temporarily away from work in the previous week.
Universe
Mauritius 2000: Persons age 12+ who did not work last week [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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