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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997
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Reference ID
MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Direction de la Démographie et des Statistiques Sociales, Institut National de la Statistique [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Respondent's current type of employment. (B_WKCURRTYPE)

Data file: MDG1997-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 397
End: 397
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
715. Do you do this work for a member of your family, for someone else, or are you self-employed?

FOR FAMILY MEMBER 1
FOR SOMEONE ELSE 2
SELF-EMPLOYED 3
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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