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1996 Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Fiji, 1996
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FJI_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Fiji Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
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Catch seafood in 1996: fish (FJ1996A_FISH)

Data file: FJI1996_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 217
End: 217
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="FJ96A057 FJ96A058 FJ96A059 FJ96A060 FJ96A061 FJ96A062 FJ96A064 FJ96A065 FJ96A066 FJ96A067 FJ96A068 FJ96A069 FJ96A070 FJ96A071 FJ96A072 FJ96A073 FJ96A074 FJ96A075 FJ96A076 FJ96A077 FJ96A078 FJ96A079 FJ96A080 FJ96A081 FJ96A082"><span class="h2">Household Questions</span><br /><br /><span class="h3">Money activity in household</span><br /><br /><span class="em">This year (1996) did anyone in this household excluding visitors and those doing so in a wage job earn money from the following activities?</span><br />Tick appropriate box for each item<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="FJ96A059 FJ96A071 FJ96A072 FJ96A073 FJ96A074">M3. Catching/collecting<br /><div class="i1">Fish</div> <br /><div class="i2">[] Yes <br />[] No</div><br /><div class="i1">Crabs, lobsters</div><br /><div class="i2">[] Yes <br />[] No</div><br /><div class="i1">Shells</div> <br /><div class="i2">[] Yes <br />[] No</div><br /><div class="i1">Beche de mer</div> <br /><div class="i2">[] Yes <br />[] No</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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="FJ96A057 FJ96A058 FJ96A059 FJ96A060 FJ96A061 FJ96A062 FJ96A064 FJ96A065 FJ96A066 FJ96A067 FJ96A068 FJ96A069 FJ96A070 FJ96A071 FJ96A072 FJ96A073 FJ96A074 FJ96A075 FJ96A076 FJ96A077 FJ96A078 FJ96A079 FJ96A080 FJ96A081 FJ96A082"><span class="h3">Money activity in the household during 1996</span><br /><br />174. Ask,<br />'This year [1996] did any person in the household [excluding visitors and those doing it in wage/salary job] earn money from the following activities'.<br /><br />Explain to the people in the household that this question is different from Questions D14 through D17 where the reference period was last week. There are also other differences:<br /><br /><div class="i1">They refer to the activities of the household as a total.<br /><br />They should not include money earnings of visitors who happened to be in the household during the census night. Activities of household members elsewhere on census night should not be included.<br /><br />The wage/salary earnings of the household members should not be reported. Money earnings referred to here are from own account activities. Money earnings of household members working for other people should not be reported here.<br /><br />Where money earning own account activity was shared between members of two separate households, it should be counted in both households.<br /><br />The reference period is from the beginning of January 1996 up until the 25th of August. A shorter period will be considered for those household established after January 1996.</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p.43]</span><br /><br />175. Tick appropriate 'Yes' box if a household member did grow vegetables, root crops, copra, rice or other crops for sale on the market.<br /><br /><div class="i1">It does not matter if the household produces most of the food crops for own use and only a little is sold or if the household produces most for sale and only a little for own use, in both cases tick 'Yes' boxes.</div><br /><br />176. Ask the same question for each economic activity under M1 through M6.<br /><br /><div class="i1">Make sure that either 'Yes' or 'No' boxes under each activity is 'ticked' as appropriate.</div><br /><br />177. At question M6 ask household members -<br /><br />'Has this household made money from any other business or activity this year'.<br /><br />If the answer is no write 'No' on the space provided. When the answer is YES ask which type of activity and write in a few words on the space provided line eg. making furniture, making dress, repair car.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether any member of the household earned money catching fish in 1996.
Universe
Fiji 1996: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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