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National Population and Housing Census 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Honduras, 1988
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HND_1988_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS
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Class of worker (HN1988A_CLASSWK)

Data file: HND1988_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 268
End: 268
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">C. Economic characteristics</span></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="HN88A430"><span class="em">23. In this job, are or were you a:</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Public sector employee or worker<br />[] 2 Private sector employee or worker<br />[] 3 Employer<br />[] 4 Unpaid family worker<br />[] 5 Own-account worker<br />[] 6 Domestic servant<br />[] 7 Worker in a production cooperative</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Public sector
2 Private sector
3 Employer
4 Unpaid family worker
5 Own-account worker
6 Domestic servant
7 Worker in a cooperative
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
<span class="h3">C. Economic characteristics</span></p>

<p><span class="em">23. In this job, are you or were you? [employment status]</span>
<br /><span class="ital">Employee or worker in the public sector</span>:
<br />It refers to those who work in public administration (governments or autonomous institutions), carrying out an executive, administrative, or support occupation.</p>

<p><span class="pg">[p. 54]</span></p>

<p><span class="ital">Employee or worker in the private sector</span>:
<br />It refers to those who work in a private company carrying out a managerial, technical, administrative, manual, or support occupation.</p>

<p><span class="ital">Employer</span>:
<br />It refers to those who work alone or in association, in their own factory, workshop, company, or business and who employs one or more persons for a salary or wage.</p>

<p>Administrators, managers, or other directors who are in charge of personnel but are not the company's owner, are not considered to be employers.</p>

<p><span class="ital">Unpaid family worker</span>:
<br />It refers to those who work for the company directed by a family member, not receiving a salary or a wage.</p>

<p><span class="ital">Own-account worker</span>:
<br />This refers to the workers who offer and charge for their services individually. They do not have an employer and do not contract salaried personnel. In some cases, they work with family members and do not pay them for their work. Examples: street peddlers, shoeshines, small businessmen, independent shoemakers, plumbers, etcetera.</p>

<p><span class="ital">Domestic servant</span>:</p>

<p>It refers to those who permanently work in the home of a family carrying out domestic duties, such as washing, cleaning, cooking, etcetera, for which a salary is received.</p>

<p><span class="ital">Worker in a production cooperative</span>:
<br />In this category are those who work as active members of one or more production cooperatives and who receive payment according to their participation. If the person is not a member of the cooperative and only receives a wage, they must not be in this category, rather they must be included in the first or second category as an employee or laborer of the public or private sector.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the status of an economically active person concerning his or her employment during last week.
Universe
Honduras 1988: Persons age 10+ who had a job or who were experienced unemployed [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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