General Population Census of 1968 - IPUMS Subset

France, 1968

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Reference ID

FRA_1968_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

INSEE (Institut National de la Statisque et des Etudes Economiques), Minnesota Population Center

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Unemployment duration (FR1968A_0408)

Data file: FRA1968-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 169

End: 169

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Professional activity (for all persons born before January 1st, 1954)
[Applies to questions 12- 18]

17. If you are currently without work and if you are looking for some:

a. Have you already worked?

[] Yes
[] No

b. What is your occupation? ____
c. How long have you been looking for work?

[] 1 less than 3 months
[] 2 from 3 to 6 months
[] 3 from 6 months to less than a year
[] 4 a year or more

Categories

Value	Category
0	Unemployed never having looked for work
1	Unemployed having already worked and looking for work for less than 3 months
2	Unemployed having already worked and looking for work for 3 to 6 months
3	Unemployed having already worked and looking for work for 6 months to less than a year
4	Unemployed having already worked and looking for work for more than a year
5	Unemployed having already worked and looking for work for an unknown period of time
6	Unemployed and not knowing if person has worked before or not
9	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.

Interviewer instructions

Question 17: The case of the unemployed and those who are looking for work.
This question concerns all people having or having not already worked, who fulfill the following conditions simultaneously:
a) do not have a job:
b) are actively looking for work.
Do not apply to these people the label "unemployed" which is sometimes judged offensive and which has a slightly different connotation.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the respondent's unemployment history.

Universe

Persons who are unemployed

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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