General Household Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2007

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Reference ID

NGA_2006_GHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Bureau of Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Reasons for doing nothing (NG2006A_0415)

Data file: NGA2006-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 168

End: 169

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Part B: Persons(s) present in household continued? (For persons age 10 years and above)
[Applies to questions 11-63]

11. Main job previous week

(If options 1-5 go to Col. 14, and if options 6 or 7 go to next person)

[] 1 Worked for pay
[] 2 Got job but did not work
[] 3 Worked for profit
[] 4 On attachment but didn't work
[] 5 Apprenticeship
[] 6 Kept home
[] 7 Went to school
[] 8 Did nothing

12. If person did nothing, what was the reason?

(If options 6-8 go to col. 42)

[] 1 Looked for job
[] 2 Sick
[] 3 Believed no job available
[] 4 Laid off 30 days or less
[] 5 Waiting to join work
[] 6 Retired
[] 7 Invalid
[] 8 Others

Categories

Value	Category
1	Looked for job
2	Sick
3	Believed no job available
4	Laid off 30 days or less
5	Waiting to join work
6	Retired
7	Invalid
8	Others
98	Unknown
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.

Interviewer instructions

Col. 12: If person did nothing previous week what was the reason:
If the respondent did nothing in the previous week, you need to ask for the reason. Enter which code that is applicable. If however the reason for doing nothing is not among the 7 options listed, then shade 8 (others) and specify.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person?s reasons for doing nothing.

Universe

Persons age 10+ who did nothing the previous week

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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