Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2012

St. Lucia, 2012

Reference ID

LCA_2012_QLFS-Q1_v01_M

Producer(s)

Central Statistics Office of Saint Lucia

Metadata

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Apr 07, 2014

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P15 - Temporary Absence (P15)

Data file: LFSPQ1_2012M

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 98

End: 98

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Only one person who were engaged in an economic activity or who were seeking and available for such activity are to be considered for inclusion in the labour force.

Literal question

Did you (...) have a job or business from which you were (...was) absent during the week ending.../.../...?

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No
9	Not Stated

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

Persons without work who had made arrangements to take up paid employment or to engage in some self-employment at a period subsequent to the reference period but had not yet started work are not to be considered as temporarily absent from work. These persons are to be considered unemployed since there is no guarantee what such a job will materialise.

Question post text

The reason why the respondent did no work during the reference week.

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