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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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Worked during last 7 days for at least one hour (MY2000A_WORKING)

Data file: MYS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 223
End: 223
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><svar a="all" v="MY00A421 MY00A433">C21 Did you work for at least 1 hour during the last 7 days?<br /><div class="i1">(Work means doing a job for salary/wages or profit or family gain.)<br /><br />[] 1 Yes (Go to C25)<br />[] 2 No</div><br /></svar>
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Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Yes
2 No
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 whether the person worked during last 7 days for at least one hour.
Universe
Malaysia 2000: Persons age 10+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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