Demographic and Health Survey 1993-1994 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 1993 - 1994

Reference ID

BGD_1993_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) [Bangladesh], Mitra and Associates, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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Aug 23, 2018

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Respondent's current type of employment. (W_WKCURRTYPE)

Data file: BGD1994-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 426

End: 426

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

715. Do you work all of the year or only during certain times of the year?
PROBE: Is the work seasonal?

ALL OF THE YEAR 1
ONLY SOME TIMES (SEASONAL) 2

Categories

Value	Category
8	Missing
0	Did not work
1	Paid employee, away
2	Paid employee, home
3	Self-employed, away
4	Self-employed, home
5	Unpaid worker, away
6	Unpaid worker, home

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

WKCURRTYPE (V718) indicates the woman's current type of employment, along the two dimensions of class of worker (paid, self-employed, unpaid) and location (at home or away).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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