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

Italy, 2015

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Reference ID

ITA_2015_LFS-Q1_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), IPUMS

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Months looking for a job before finding one about to begin (IT2015H_F43)

Data file: ITA2015_LFS-Q1-P-H

Overview

Type: Continuous

Start: 599

End: 601

Width: 3

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

F43. How many months did you look for a job before finding the one that you're about to begin? (In case of fraction of month, round down)</p>
<div class="i1">Months ____<br />000 Less than one month<br />995 Didn't do any search to find the job that is about to begin<br />997 Doesn't know</div>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the number of months the person spent looking for a job before finding the one they are about to begin.

Universe

Italy 2015: Persons who have found a job

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

This is a 3-digit numeric variable with 0 implied decimal places

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