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Housing, Economic, Demographic Characteristics survey (H.E.D), 1973 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1973
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Reference ID
PAK_1973_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Population Census Organization, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Work status (PK1973A_CLASSWK)

Data file: PAK1973_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 210
End: 210
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="PK73A414 PK73A415 PK73A416 PK73A417 PK73A418 PK73A419">For those who answered yes in Col. 15<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PK73A418">18. Did he/she work as<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Employer<br />[] 2 Employee<br />[] 3 Self employed<br />[] 4 Unpaid family helper</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Employer
2 Employee
3 Self employed
4 Unpaid 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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's work status (class of worker).
Universe
Pakistan 1973: Persons age 10+ who worked last week [discrepancies: type I 0.2%; type II 0.4%]

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