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National Census of Housing and Population 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Bolivia, 2001
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BOL_2001_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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Status in employment (BO2001A_CLASSWK)

Data file: BOL2001_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

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

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="BO01A454 BO01A455 BO01A456 BO01A457 BO01A458 BO01A459 BO01A460 BO01A461"><span class="h1">Chapter F. Only for persons seven years old or more.</span><br />[Questions 42-47 were asked of all persons seven years or older.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="BO01A459">46. In this work, you worked as:<br /><div class="i1">[Question 46 was asked of persons aged 7 years and older who worked or were engaged in any productive activity during the week prior to enumeration, per Questions 42 and 43.]<br /><br />[] 3 Employee (manual laborer or professional)<br />[] 4 Own-account worker<br />[] 5 Owner, partner, employer<br />[] 6 Member of a cooperative<br />[] 7 Unpaid family worker or apprentice</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
3 Employee (manual laborer or professional)
4 Own-account worker
5 Owner-employer
6 Member of a cooperative
7 Unpaid family worker
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
<svar v="BO01A454 BO01A455 BO01A456 BO01A457 BO01A458 BO01A459 BO01A460 BO01A461"><span class="h2">Chapter F. Only for persons 7 years of age and older</span><br /><br />If the person is 7 year of age or older, question 42 is presented. If younger than 7 years of age, the interview is ended and the next person is interviewed.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="BO01A459"><span class="em">Question 46. What was your employment status in this occupation?</span><br /><br />[Employment status]<br /><br />The question should be presented by reading each option slowly and deliberately until reaching the question mark. When an answer is given, the oval is filled in and the next question is presented.<br /><br />The following clarifications should be considered:<br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Worker or employee?</span> This is a salaried person who works for a company, institution, business, or household, This person depends on an employer or boss and receives remuneration in money or in-kind for the work completed.<br /><br /><span class="em">Own-account worker? </span>This is a person who has his own company or business, has no remunerated employees and does not depend on an employer. This person sells and/or produces goods or services with the help of family workers or apprentices or without help. For example: fabric cutter, carpenter, peddler, plumber, etc.<br /><br /><span class="em">Owner, partner, or employer?</span> This is the owner and/or partner of a company or business of goods and/or services that, necessarily, contracts one or more paid workers; either permanently or temporarily. For example: Owners of factories, medium-sized to large workshops, construction contractors, and others.<br /><br /><span class="em">Member of a production cooperative? </span> This person is a partner who actively works in a cooperative enterprise. For example: cooperative miners, cooperative gold-miners, cooperative telephone workers, etc.<br /><br /><span class="em">Family worker or un-paid apprentice? </span>This is a person who carries out an activity without receiving payment in money or in-kind; may or may not be a relative of the owner of the workplace. For example: mechanical workshop worker, children of owners of retail sales stores, family members of rural farmers.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the class of worker.
Universe
Bolivia 2001: Persons age 7+ who worked or were engaged in any productive activity during last week [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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