Survey of Living Conditions 1997

Jamaica, 1997

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Reference ID

JAM_1997_SLC_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistical Institute of Jamaica, Planning Institute of Jamaica

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

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Oct 08, 2015

Last modified

Jan 30, 2020

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Employment Status (d13)

Data file: REC011

Overview

Valid: 203

Invalid: 2637

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 17

End: 17

Width: 1

Range: 2 - 7

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Employee of central/local government	0	0%
2	Other government agencies	2	1%
3	Private sector business	54	26.6%
4	Unpaid worker	5	2.5%
5	Employer	10	4.9%
6	Own account worker	131	64.5%
7	Not stated	1	0.5%
Sysmiss		2637

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.

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