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National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), 2018
LFS-Q2, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2018
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MEX_2018_LFS-Q2_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Reason fired or last job ended (MX2018I_P2J)

Data file: MEX2018_LFS-Q2-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 455
End: 455
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<div class="title">Employment and Occupation Questionnaire (Basic)</div></p>

<p><span class="h1">II. Unemployment</span></p>

<p>2j. In this occasion,</p>
<div class="i1">(Read and circle the options mentioned by the respondent)<br /><br />[] 1 The source of employment closed or went bankrupt?<br />[] 2 Was there a staff cut?<br />[] 3 The company changed city or country?<br />[] 4 Did not renew your contract?<br />[] 5 Did not call you again?<br />[] 6 Did you got fired?<br />[] 7 None of the above<br />[] 9 Doesn't know</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Job source closed or went bankrupt
2 Cut in personnel
3 Company changed city or country
4 Contract was not renewed
5 Job never called them back
6 Fired
7 Other reason
9 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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the reason why the respondent was fired, or their job ended.
Universe
Mexico 2018 Q2 LFS: Present persons age 12+ who were not employed but worked before, except temporarily absent workers, and who lost their last job because they were fired, their job ended, or for other reason

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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