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II Housing Census and VII Population Census of 1964 - IPUMS Subset

Guatemala, 1964
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GTM_1964_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Inactive population (last 4 weeks) (GT1964A_ACTIVITY)

Data file: GTM1964_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 222
End: 222
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">Educational and occupational characteristics</span>
<br />Persons 7 years old and more
<br />[Questions 15 to 26 are asked of persons age 7+ years old]</p>

<p><span class="em">Occupational situation in the month before the census</span></p>

<p>25. Inactive population ____</p>
<div class="i1">For those persons who did not work or looked for work in the last four months before the census, write the reason: housework, student, retired, ill, blind, crazy, etcetera.</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Domestic duties
2 Student
3 Retired, pensioner, rentier
4 Sick, invalid, elderly
5 Blind
6 Prisoner
7 Other
8 Unknown
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's activity if he did not work or look for a job in the last four weeks.
Universe
Guatemala 1964: Persons age 7+ who did not work nor look for a job in the last 4 weeks [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

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