National Census. Eighth Census of Population Fourth Census of Dwellings 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Nicaragua, 2005

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NIC_2005_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Work status last week (NI2005A_0427)

Data file: NIC2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 225

End: 225

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

[Questions 19-31 were asked of persons age 10 or older]

19. Did [the person] work during the last week?

[] 1 Yes (continue to question 26)
[] 2 No

Categories

Value	Category
1	Worked during the reference week
2	Did not work during the reference week
3	Inactive in institutional dwelling
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

Definitions:

Work
This is when a person spends at least one hour a week performing any economic activity and earns profits, wages, or a salary or another type of payment in money or in kind, or as an unpaid worker.

Not work
Unpaid household tasks and work on a person's own dwelling.
Unpaid volunteer work for a church, fire department or other non-profit institution.
Work done by persons who are involuntarily confined to an institution such as a jail, sanitarium, asylum, penal farm, etc.

For persons age 10 or older (Questions 19-31)

Question 19. Did [the person] work during the last week?

In this question consider persons who worked at least one hour last week.

Mark an "X" next to the option stated by the informant.

If the answer is "Yes", go to question 26.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's work status last week.

Universe

Persons age 10+

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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