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V Censo de Población y IV de Vivienda 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Ecuador, 1990
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ECU_1990_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Minnesota Population Center
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Class of worker (EC1990A_0407)

Data file: ECU1990-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 148
End: 148
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
For all individuals 8 years of age and older
[Applies to questions 13-18.]




For those who answered 0, 1 or 2 in question 13 and 1 in question 14:
[Applies to questions 15-18.]




18. What was the position or category in the occupation indicated?

Read the options in the order given and upon receiving an answer mark the appropriate box.

[] 1 Owner or active partner
[] 2 Own-account


Employee or paid worker:


[] 3 Of a municipality or provincial council
[] 4 Of the state [estado, i.e., central government]
[] 5 Of the private sector


[] 6 Unpaid family worker
[] 9 Unknown
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Owner or partner
2 Own-account worker
3 Municipality or council
4 State
5 Private sector
6 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.
Interviewer instructions
Question 18. What was the position or job category of the work indicated?

The goal of this question is to understand the labor relationship that each person has in his/her work, activity or business that he/she indicated in question 15.

Owner- this is the person who manages his/her own company or business or practices a profession or occupation and has one or more paid employees. For example: factory owner, owner of a clothing workshop, etc.

Investment partner- This is a person who contributes with work or capital or with work and capital, in a specific business. For example: partner in a company where he/she provides capital.

Self-employed- This is the person who works in his/her own company or business, profession or occupation, but without employees. For example: traveling salesman, seamstress, lawyer who practices his/her profession without a secretary, etc.

Employee or worker- All persons who receive payment for labor in the form of hourly salary, monthly salary, daily pay, or piece work wages.

If the person being enumerated works for the municipality or Provincial government, mark box 3.

If the person being enumerated provides services in a public office, mark box 4.

If the person works in a company, business, industry or other private enterprise, mark box 5.

Unpaid family worker- This is the person who works without pay in a company, land plot, or family business. For example: the spouse who works in the grocery store owned by her spouse, etc.


What was the position or job category of the work indicated?


Read the possible answers in order and when you receive and answer, mark the corresponding box.


[ ] 1 Owner or active partner
[ ] 2 Self-employed
Employee or salaried worker:


[ ] 3 of the municipality or provincial council
[ ] 4 of the State
[ ] 5 of the private sector


[ ] 6 Unpaid family worker
[ ] 9 Don't know

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's class of worker and/or economic sector of employment.
Universe
Persons age 8+ who were employed, unemployed, or an unpaid worker

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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