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Labour Force Survey, 2015
LFS-Q1, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Italy, 2015
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ITA_2015_LFS-Q1_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), IPUMS
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Employment status, 10 categories (IT2015H_COND10)

Data file: ITA2015_LFS-Q1-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 757
End: 758
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
B1. "Last week" Did you carry out at least one hour of work? Include any work for which you have been or will be compensated, or uncompensated work only if it is carried out habitually for a family member's business.</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes [go to section C]<br />[] 2 No<br />[] 3 Permanently unfit for work [go to section E]</div><p>B2. Also during the week "From Monday... to Sunday...", did you still have a job that you didn't do? For example: due to a limited period of reduced activity, illness, vacation, redundancy fund, etc.</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No [go to section E]</div><p>B3. What was the main reason for which you didn't work that week?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Redundancy fund (ordinary or extraordinary) [set B4=1 and go to B6]<br />[] 2 Reduced enterprise activity for economic and/or technical reasons (excluding CIG) [go to B4]<br />[] 4 Job-related dispute [go to B4]<br />[] 5 Bad weather [go to section C]<br />[] 6 Illness, personal health problems, accident [go to section C]<br />[] 7 Annual break [go to section C]<br />[] 8 Public holidays during the week [go to section C]<br />[] 9 Variable or flexible work schedule (e.g. paid leave) [go to section C]<br />[] 10 Vertical part-time [go to B4]<br />[] 11 Study or training not organized within the scope of the job [go to B4]<br />[] 12 Mandatory maternity leave [go to section C]<br />[] 13 Optional leave until the child's eighth birthday (parental leave) [go to B4]<br />[] 14 Family reasons (excluding mandatory maternity and parental leave) [go to B4]<br />[] 15 Lack of/low workload [go to B4]<br />[] 994 Occasional job<br />[] 995 Seasonal employment (e.g. lifeguard, fruit picker, winter waiter in mountain, etc.)<br />[] 996 Other reasons [go to B4]</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Employed
02 Individuals seeking employment with previous work experience
03 Individuals seeking employment with previous experience, ex-inactive
04 Individuals seeking employment with no previous experience
05 Inactive individuals of working age, not actively seeking but available
06 Inactive individuals of working age, seeking but not available
07 Inactive individuals of working age, not seeking but available
08 Inactive individuals of working age, not seeking and not available (including military personnel and unfit for work)
09 Inactive individuals of non-working age, less than 15 years old
10 Inactive persons of non-working age, over 64 years old
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 employment status of the person (10 categories).
Universe
Italy 2015: All persons

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