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National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), 2009
LFS-Q1, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2009
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MEX_2009_LFS-Q1_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Duration of unemployment (MX2009H_DUR_DES)

Data file: MEX2009_LFS-Q1-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 357
End: 357
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">IX. Employment history</span></p>

<p>9f. In what year did [the respondent] stop working that job (or close this business)?</p>
<div class="i1">Year _ _ _ _<br />Month _ _<br /><br /><span class="em">Attention</span>: If year mentioned is current year or last year, ask for the month, record it, and provide the classification in all cases.</div><div class="i2">[] 1 This year<br />[] 2 Last year<br />[] 3 Before last year (skip to 9n)<br />[] 9 Doesn't know (skip to 9n)</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Up to 1 month
2 More than 1 month up to 3 months
3 More than 3 months up to 6 months
4 More than 6 months up to 1 year
5 More than 1 year
6 Unknown
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="h2">7.11 Battery IX. Work history</span>
<br />This battery of questions focuses on inquiring about the characteristics of the last job that was lost or left in the interviewed population, such as: context in which this situation occurred and the time frame (if it occurred during the current year or in prior years), the cause, type of occupation that was performed, the type of activities to which the economic unit for which the person worked was dedicated, the type of employment benefits, income received and current availability of economic income derived from that lost employment relationship, in order to assess the quality of that job in relation to the most recent one.</p>

<p>This battery of questions distinguishes three types of sequences; two of them are aimed at subordinate workers, with a view toward identifying those who lost their job due to difficulties centered more on employment conditions of the market and by their own decision, respectively; and the third sequence identifies the main reasons why independent workers left or lost their business or activity.</p>

<p><span class="em">Question 9f</span>
<br />This question is asked to employed persons who at some point were left without a job and unemployed persons with work experience to identify how long it has been since they lost their job or suspended their work activities.</p>

<p>[Omitted figure]</p>

<p>Conceptual clarifications:
<br />Remember that the information obtained in this battery of questions may refer to a recent or an old job, secondary or tertiary, so you do not have to establish consistency between the dates recorded in questions 3r or 3s of the main job, and the date recorded in this question.</p>

<p>Instructions:</p>
<div class="i1">- How to record the information. Enter four digits for the year and two for the month, then circle the respective option to indicate in what year the event occurred. If the informant does not know any of the dates, month or year, enter nines in the respective spaces.<br />- Sequence to follow. If you circle option 1 or 2, continue with question 9g; if you circle option 3 or 9, go to question 9n.</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the duration of unemployment.
Universe
Mexico 2009 Q1 LFS: Present persons age 12+ who were unemployed

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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