2008 National Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Liberia, 2008

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LBR_2008_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS), IPUMS

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Activity status (LR2008A_EMPSTAT)

Data file: LBR2008_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 222

End: 223

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h3">Persons 6 years and over</span></p>

<p><span class="em">P21. Economic Activity</span><div class="i1">What was [the respondent] doing mainly, during past one year (12 months)?</div>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Paid employee
02	Self employed
03	Contributing family worker
04	Looking for work
05	Not working and not looking for work
06	Household worker
07	Full time student
08	Retired/pensioner
09	Incapacitated
10	Part-time worker
11	Other
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 person's activity status.

Universe

Liberia 2008: Persons age 6+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

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