General Population Census VII Home III and Housing V 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Uruguay, 1996

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URY_1996_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

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National Institute of Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

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Looked for work (UY1996A_0434)

Data file: URY1996-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 196

End: 196

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For all people age 12 or older
[Questions 16-28 were asked of persons age 12 or older]

24. During the last four weeks, were you looking for work?

[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No
8	Unknown
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

Persons age 12 or older

Question 24. During the last four weeks, did you look for work?
Examples of "looking for work" are any of the following cases: registering or applying for vacancies, and public, private and syndicated work agencies, signing up personally for employment in businesses, writing cards applying for jobs, looking in work places, small farms, farms, factories, markets, and other meeting places, putting in or responding to ads in newspapers, looking for work from friends, parents and other people they know, looking for financial resources and others like earth, buildings, machinery and equipment to establish a building, filling out licenses.

If the response to this is "Yes", fill in the corresponding box and go to Question 25. If the response is "No", fill in the box and observe the sex and age of the enumerated person.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates if the person looked for work during the previous four weeks.

Universe

Persons age 12+ who did not work or have a job in the previous week

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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