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2015 The Puerto Rico Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 2011 - 2015
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Reference ID
PRI_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
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Class of worker (PR2015A_CLASSWKR)

Data file: PRI2015_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 320
End: 321
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">L</span> <span class="ital">Answer questions 41-46 if this person worked in the past 5 years. Otherwise, skip to question 7.</span></p>

<p><span class="em"><br />41-46 Current or most recent job activity. Describe clearly this person's chief job activity or business last week. If this person had more than one job, describe the one at which this person worked the most hours. If this person had no job or business last week, give information for his/her last job or business.<br /></span></p>

<p>41. Was this person </p>
<div class="i1">Mark (x) one box<br />[] An employee of a private for-profit company or business, or of an individual, for wages, salary, or commissions?<br />[] An employee of a private not-for-profit, tax-exempt, or charitable organization?<br />[] A local government employee (city, county, municipio, etc.)?<br />[] A state government employee?<br />[] A Federal government employee?<br />[] Self-employed in own not incorporated business, professional practice, or farm?<br />[] Self-employed in own incorporated business, professional practice, or farm?<br />[] working without pay in family business or farm?</div>
Categories
Value Category
13 Self-employed, not incorporated
14 Self-employed, incorporated
22 Wage or salary, private
23 Wage or salary at non-profit
25 Federal government employee
27 Commonwealth employee
28 Local government employee
29 Unpaid family worker
99 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 class of worker.
Universe
Puerto Rico 2015: Persons age 16+ working within the last five years, not new workers [discrepancies: none]

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