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Labour Force Survey, 2012
LFS-Q1, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Italy, 2012
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Reference ID
ITA_2012_LFS-Q1_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
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Aug 01, 2025
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Reason absent from work last week (IT2012H_B3)

Data file: ITA2012_LFS-Q1-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 218
End: 219
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
B3. What was the main reason for which you didn't work that week?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Redundancy fund (ordinary or extraordinary) [set B4=1 and go to B6]<br />[] 2 Reduced enterprise activity for economic and/or technical reasons (excluding CIG) [go to B4]<br />[] 4 Job-related dispute [go to B4]<br />[] 5 Bad weather [go to section C]<br />[] 6 Illness, personal health problems, accident [go to section C]<br />[] 7 Annual break [go to section C]<br />[] 8 Public holidays during the week [go to section C]<br />[] 9 Variable or flexible work schedule (e.g. paid leave) [go to section C]<br />[] 10 Vertical part-time [go to B4]<br />[] 11 Study or training not organized within the scope of the job [go to B4]<br />[] 12 Mandatory maternity leave [go to section C]<br />[] 13 Optional leave until the child's eighth birthday (parental leave) [go to B4]<br />[] 14 Family reasons (excluding mandatory maternity and parental leave) [go to B4]<br />[] 15 Lack of/low workload [go to B4]<br />[] 994 Occasional job<br />[] 995 Seasonal employment (e.g. lifeguard, fruit picker, winter waiter in mountain, etc.)<br />[] 996 Other reasons [go to B4]</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Redundancy fund (ordinary or extraordinary CIG)
02 Reduced enterprise activity for economic and/or technical reasons (excluding CIG)
04 Job-related dispute
05 Bad weather
06 Illness, personal health problems, accident
07 Annual break
08 Public holidays during the week
09 Variable or flexible work schedule (e.g. paid leave)
10 Vertical part-time
11 Study or training not organized within the scope of the job
12 Mandatory maternity leave
13 Optional leave until the child's eighth birthday (parental leave)
14 Family reasons (excluding mandatory maternity and parental leave)
15 Lack of/low workload
18 Occasional job
94 Seasonal employment (e.g. lifeguard, fruit picker, winter waiter in mountain, etc.)
95 Other reasons
96 Altro motivo (specificare)
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the reason for which the person was absent from work during the previous week.
Universe
Italy 2012: Persons age 15+ absent from work last week

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Concept
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