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Labour Force Survey, 2014
LFS-Q1, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Italy, 2014 - 2015
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Reference ID
ITA_2014_LFS-Q1_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 01, 2025
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Reason no action to look for a job last month (IT2014H_F10)

Data file: ITA2014_LFS-Q1-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 518
End: 519
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
F10. What is the main reason you haven't looked for a job during the last 4 weeks "from... to..."?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Already has a job that will begin soon [go to F43]<br />[] 2 Studies or takes professional development courses [go to F12]<br />[] 3 Disease, personal health problems [go to F12]<br />[] 4 Childcare and/or care for other non-self-sufficient persons<br />[] 5 Waiting to return to their job [go to F12]<br />[] 7 Work pension (retirement) [go to F12]<br />[] 8 Believes he/she can't find a job [go to F12]<br />[] 9 Doesn't care/doesn't need it (also because of age) [go to F12]<br />[] 10 Waiting to hear from jobs s/he applied to [go to F12]<br />[] 11 Permanently unfit for work [set F12=2, F15=2 and go to sec. H]<br />[] 12 Maternity, birth of a child<br />[] 13 Other family reasons (excluding maternity, childcare or care for other persons) [go to F12]<br />[] 996 Other reasons [go to F12]<br />[] 997 Doesn't know [go to F12]</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Already has a job that will begin soon
02 Studies or takes professional development courses
03 Disease, personal health problems
04 Childrencare and/or care for other non-self-sufficient persons
05 Waiting to return to their job
07 Work pension (retirement)
08 Believes he/she can't find a job
09 Do not care/do not need it (also because of age)
10 Waiting to hear from jobs s/he applied to
11 Permanently unfit for work
12 Maternity, birth of a child
13 Other family reasons ( excluding maternity, childcare or for other persons)
14 Waiting to start receiving pension
96 Other reasons
98 Do not know
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 took no action to look for a job during the previous month.
Universe
Italy 2014: Nonemployed persons who did not act to find work in last month

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Concept
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