Population and Housing Census 1970 - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 1970

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Reference ID

MYS_1970_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of Statistics Malaysia, Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 29, 2011

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Employment status last week (MY1970A_0425)

Data file: MYS1970-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 174

End: 174

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

[Questions 25-44 were asked of persons age 10+.]

Before asking questions 25-34 explain that the questions are for the previous 7 day period only

29. Did you look for work?

[] Yes
[] No

Categories

Value	Category
1	Employer
2	Self employed
3	Employed (salary and wages)
4	Family worker
5	Looking for job
7	Not in workforce
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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the employment status for the last 7 days.

Universe

Persons age 10+

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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