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XIII National Population and II Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1964
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COL_1964_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS
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Employment status (CO1964A_EMPSTAT)

Data file: COL1964_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 142
End: 142
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CO64A414"><span class="em">15. Do you currently have paid employment?</span> ____<br /><div class="i1">Write "yes" or "no".</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a=" CO64A417" v=" CO64A417 CO64A414"><span class="em">19. Occupation or condition of unemployment</span> ____ _<br /><div class="i1">Write the occupation or usual employment of the person. Examples: Farmer, doctor, carpenter, accountant, manual laborer, servant, etc. If the person does not work, write the unemployment condition: renter, pensioner, disabled, elderly, household domestic duties, student, etc. For those who are unemployed, write their last paid occupation.</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Has paid work
2 Does not have paid work (unemployed)
3 Household domestic duties
4 Students
5 Elderly
6 Disabled and institutionalized
7 Pensioners and rentiers
8 Others in similar conditions
9 Persons under age 5 and non-students age 5-11
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 activity status. This variable was constructed based on a yes/no question about whether the person was working along with additional information gathered about activity status for those who were not working.

This variable is used to define the universe for subsequent employment questions. In the labor force is defined as those who answered yes they were working or those who answered no they were not working and do not have any other activity status. Those not in the labor force are those who answered no they were not working and had another activity status (i.e. household domestic duties, students, minors, elderly, disabled and institutionalized, pensioners and rentiers, or others in similar conditions).
Universe
Colombia 1964: All persons

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