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Labor Force Survey 2008

Philippines, 2008
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C13-Did Have a Job/Business during the Past Week? (c13_job)

Data file: LFS_October 2008

Overview

Valid: 0
Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 45
End: 45
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Although ___ did not work, did ___ have a job or business during the past week?
1 YES
2 NO, skip to col. 31
Categories
Value Category
1 With Job/Business During the Past Week
2 No Job/Business During the Past Week
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
These persons are considered employed even though they are not actually at work. They should have an answer of "1" - YES in column 13. If the answer is "No" (code 2), skip to column 31.

If the answer in this column is "No" and age is 5-14 years old, line out the succeeding columns and go to next household member. However, if the answer is "Yes" and age is 5-14, ask columns 14-16 only. Line out the succeeding columns and go to next household member.

Description

Definition
Some persons may not have worked at all during the past week and therefore would have a code of "2" (NO) in column 12 but may actually have jobs or businesses that they are temporarily not reporting to, as in the following cases:

- An employee on strike
- A person on vacation or sick leave
- A person temporarily laid off due to non-economic reasons like machine breakdown
- A person with a new job to begin within 2 weeks from the date of the interview
- Regular and temporary teachers, excluding substitutes, during summer vacation who still receive pay and who expect to go back to their jobs in the next school year

These persons are considered employed even though they are not actually at work. They should have an answer of "1" - YES in column 13. If the answer is "No" (code 2), skip to column 31.
Universe
For persons 5 years old and over
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