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

Uruguay, 1985 - 1996

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URY_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS

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Employment status (UY1996A_EMPSTAT)

Data file: URY1996_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 238

End: 238

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar v="UY96A425 UY96A426 UY96A427 UY96A428 UY96A429 UY96A430 UY96A431 UY96A432 UY96A433 UY96A434 UY96A435 UY96A436 UY96A437 UY96A438 UY96A439 UY96A440 UY96A441 UY96A442 UY96A443 UY96A444 UY96A445 UY96A446 UY96A447 UY96A448 UY96A449 UY96A457"><span class="em">For all people age 12 or older</span><br />[Questions 16-28 were asked of persons age 12 or older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="UY96A431 UY96A453">21. During the past week, did you work at least one hour?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Employed
2	Unemployed, worked before
3	Looked for the first time
4	Student
5	Retired/pensioner
6	Other
7	Inactive, without further specification
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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's employment status.

Universe

Uruguay 1996: Persons age 12+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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