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National Census of Housing and Population 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Bolivia, 2012
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BOL_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and Coordination, Republic of Bolivia, IPUMS
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Looking for work or inactive (BO2012A_ACTIVITY)

Data file: BOL2012_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 290
End: 290
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">F3. Only for people at least 7 years old</span></p>

<p>41. During the past week, were you... ?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Seeking work, having worked before [Go to question 45]<br />[] 2 Seeking work for the first time [Go to question 45]<br />[] 3 A student [Go to question 45]<br />[] 4 A homemaker [Go to question 45]<br />[] 5 Retired, a pensioner, or an annuitant [Go to question 45]<br />[] 6 Other [Go to question 45]</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Seeking work, having worked before
2 Seeking work for the first time
3 A student
4 A homemaker
5 Retired, a pensioner, or an annuitant
6 Other
9 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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h3">F3. Only for people at least 7 years old<br />Economic characteristics of the population </span></p>

<p>The criteria for collecting economic data about the population are:</p>
<div class="i1">- Minimum age: 7<br />- Reference period: the week before Census Day</div><p>The population's economic characteristics being researched in the census are the type of activity, the principal occupation, the branch of economic activity, and the occupational category or job position (see Appendix).</p>

<p><span class="em">39, 40, 41. Type of activity</span>
<br />The type of activity defines the person's relationship with the activity the person performed in the week before Census Day. Depending on the type of activity, the person may be economically active or economically inactive. However, people who were economically active and had work in the week before Census Day are considered employed people, and if they are seeking work they are unemployed people. The reference period is the week before Census Day. Questions 39, 40, and 41 allow us to identify, first of all, the economically active population and economically inactive population; then, among the economically active people, we can identify the employed people and unemployed people; among the unemployed people we can distinguish between people seeking work who had worked before the reference week and people seeking work for the first time; and lastly, among the economically inactive people, the questions let us identify homemakers and full-time students, as well as retirees, pensioners, and annuitants. Read out the multiple choices for questions 40 and 41 in order until you get an affirmative response. When this happens, go to the question indicated as the next one.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person was looking for work during the week before the enumeration date.
Universe
Bolivia 2012: Persons age 7+ who did not work or engage in any productive activity last week [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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