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Octavo Censo Nacional de Población y Cuarto de Vivienda de Panamá 1980 - IPUMS Subset

Panama, 1980
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PAN_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Contraloria General de la Republica, Direccion de Estadistica y Censo, IPUMS
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Class of worker (PA1980A_CLASSWK)

Data file: PAN1980_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 226
End: 226
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="PA80A419">20. You work or worked last as:<br /><div class="i1">Mark the appropriate box.<br /><br />Employee</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 of the government<br />[] 2 of a private company<br />[] 3 of a Canal Zone agency<br />[] 4 of a cooperative of communal organization</div><br /><div class="i1">[] 5 Own-account worker<br />[] 6 Owner (boss)<br />[] 7 Member of a production cooperative or of a communal organization<br />[] 8 Family worker</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 Employee: government
2 Employee: private company
3 Employee: Canal agency
4 Employee: cooperative or community organization
5 Own-account worker
6 Owner (boss)
7 Member of a cooperative
8 Family worker
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 person's employment status.
Universe
Panama 1980: Persons age 10+ who worked or looked for work either last week or some time in the past (excluding retired persons) [discrepancies: type I 0.1%; type II none]

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