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1970 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1970
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USA_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Employment status (US1970A_EMPSTAT)

Data file: USA1970_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 265
End: 265
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">23. When was this person born? </span><div class="i1">[] Born before April 1956 - Please go on with questions 24 through 41.<br />[] Born April 1956 or later - Please omit questions 24 through 41 and go to the next page for the next person.</div><svar v="US70A444 US70A445 US70A456 US70A482 US70A483 US70A493 US70A458 US70A450 US70A451 US70A446 US70A447 US70A452 US70A476 US70A477 US70A478 US70A460 US70A454 US70A462 US70A463 US70A465 US70A466 US70A467 US70A468 US70A470"><span class="em">Questions 29 through 41 are for all persons born before April 1956 including housewives, students, or disabled persons as well as part-time or full-time workers. </span><br /></svar></p>

<p>[All]
<br /><svar a="all" v="US70A444 US70A445"><span class="em">29a. Did this person work at any time last week? </span><br /><br /><div class="i1">[] Yes - Fill this circle if this person did full- or part-time work. (Count part-time work such as a Saturday job, delivering papers, or helping without pay in a family business or farm; and active duty in the Armed Forces.<br /><br />[] No - Fill this circle if this person did not work, or did only own housework, school work, or volunteer work. Skip to 30</div><br /></svar></p>

<p>[All]
<br /><span class="em">30. Does this person have a job or business from which he was temporarily absent or on layoff last week? </span><div class="i1">[] Yes, on layoff<br />[] Yes, on vacation, temporary illness, labor dispute, etc.<br />[] No</div><p>"Mark <span class="em">No</span> if he works only during certain seasons or is "on call" to work when needed."
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 At work
2 Has job, not working
3 Armed forces--at work
4 Armed forces--with job but not at work
5 Unemployed
6 Not in Labor Force
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 whether the respondent was a part of the labor force--working or seeking work--and, if so, whether the person was currently unemployed.
Universe
United States 1970: Persons age 14+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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