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2000 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 2000
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MYS_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS
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Class of worker (MY2000A_CLASSWK)

Data file: MYS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 241
End: 241
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">Question C17 - C29 for person aged 10 years and above</span></p>

<p>[Questions 25-27 were asked of persons who worked for at least one hour during the last 7 days or had a job to return to.]</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MY00A432 MY00A433">C27. What is your employment status?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Employer<br />[] 2 Employee<br />[] 3 Self-employed<br />[] 4 Unpaid family worker<br />(End interview for this person*)<br /><br />*In Sabah, W.P. Labuan and Sarawak, go to question C28 for ever married woman.</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Employer
2 Employee
3 Self employed
4 Unpaid family worker
5 Unknown employed status
6 Unemployed
7 Outside labour force
9 Unknown
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 of the person.
Universe
Malaysia 2000: Persons age 10+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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