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Population Housing and Establishment Census 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1996
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EGY_1996_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, Minnesota Population Center
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Work status (EG1996A_0411)

Data file: EGY1996-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 156
End: 157
Width: 2
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Persons six years and over
[Questions 8-11 were asked of persons 6 years and over.]




8. Employment status

[] 1 Under age
[] 2 Employer
[] 3 Self-employed
[] 4 Employee
[] 5 Unpaid worker
[] 6 Seeking work (old)
[] 7 Seeking work (new)
[] 8 Student
[] 9 Housewife
[] 10 Not willing to work
[] 11 Retired
[] 12 Aged not working
[] 13 Unable to work
Categories
Value Category
2 Employer
3 Self-employed
4 Employed
5 Unpaid worker
6 Unemployed
7 First-time work seeker
8 Student
9 Housewife/helps in the house
10 Not willing to work
11 Retired
12 Aged not working
13 Handicapped, unable to work
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.
Interviewer instructions
The employment status column No.(8)
For the person less than (6) years fill in ink the circle in front of No.(1)
For the person six years and over fill in ink the circle:

In front of No.(2) for the employer
In front of No.(3) for the person who is working for his own account (self employed)
In front of No.(4) is for the paid worker who is working to other or to his relatives (employee)
In front of No.(5) for unpaid worker
In front of No.(6) the person who is seeking work but he was previously working
In front of No.(7) is for the person who is seeking for work but, he has no previous work
In front of No.(8) is for student
In front of No.(9) is for the housewife
In front of No.(10) is for the person who is able to work but, he is unwilling
In front of No.(11) is for the retired person because of age (60 years but he does not reach 65) and he is not working now, he is either willing or unwilling.
If the retired person after the legal age is working, the proper employment status is given to him, and not No.(11) as retired is given to him, if he is able to work, it is given to him the proper employment status that he is practicing after finishing his first job
In front of No.(12) for the person whose age is 65 and over and he is not working
In front of No.(13) for the person (6) years and more and less than 65 years and he is not working because he is unable to work

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's employment status.
Universe
Persons age 6+

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Concept
Name Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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