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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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Reason for not looking for work last week (PA1980A_WHYNOT)

Data file: PAN1980_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 221
End: 222
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="PA80A416">16. What was the reason for not looking for work last week?<br /><div class="i1">Mark the appropriate box<br /><br />[] 1 Does casual/occasional jobs<br />[] 2 Has been looking for more than three months<br />[] 3 Has looked before and is now waiting to hear<br />[] 4 Impossible to find work<br />(in the case of the above responses, go on to question 17)<br /><br />[] 5 Housewife [homemaker]<br />[] 6 Student<br />[] 7 Disabled<br />[] 8 Retiree [reached retirement age/work years]<br />[] 9 Pensioner, rentier<br />[] 10 Retired [removed from workforce]<br />[] X Other condition<br />(in the case of responses 5 through X, skip to question 25)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 Does occasional jobs
02 Looked before and is now waiting to hear
03 Has looked and waiting for news
04 Impossible to find work
05 Home chores (housewife)
06 Student
07 Disabled
08 Retired
09 Pensioner, rentier
10 Retired, other status
11 Other condition
98 Unknown
99 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 reason the person did not look for work last week.
Universe
Panama 1980: Persons age 10+ who did not work and did not look for work last week [discrepancies: type I 0.1%; type II none]

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