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1990 Housing and Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Mauritius, 1990
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MUS_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, IPUMS
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Class of worker (MU1990A_CLASSWK)

Data file: MUS1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 292
End: 293
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
In strict confidence
<br />Ministry of Economic Planning and Development
<br />Central Statistical Office
<br /><span class="h1"><br />Population Census<br />Mauritius<br /></span>
<br /><span class="em">Night of 1-2 July 1990</span></p>

<p><span class="em">For persons aged 12 years and over:</span></p>

<p>33 Employment status ____</p>
<div class="i1">Insert as appropriate:</div><div class="i2">[] SEE - self-employed with employees<br />[] SEW - self-employed without employees<br />[] FW - working without pay for spouse or other relative in his/her farm or business<br />[] A - apprentice with or without pay<br />[] EM - employee paid by day, week, fortnight, job<br />[] PC - member of producer's cooperative<br />[] Other, specify ____</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Self-employed with employees
02 Self-employed without employees
03 Working without pay for spouse or other relative in his or her farm or business
04 Apprentice with or without pay
05 Employee paid by month
06 Employee paid by day or week
08 Other
98 Unknown
99 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="em">Stop at this column [28] if person has never worked. Columns 29 to 34 are for persons who have ever worked. Information is required on the person's work during the past week. If person had more than one job last week, answer for the job at which he/she worked the most hours, if person had no job last week, answer for his/her last job.</span></p>

<p><span class="h2">Column 33</span>
<br /><span class="h3">Employment status</span>
<br />Insert as appropriate:</p>
<div class="i1"><span class="em">SEE </span>- for a sell-employed person operating, alone or in partnership, his/her own business, trade, enterprise, farm or professional practice, with the help of one or more paid employees.<br /><span class="em">SEW</span> - for a self-employed person operating, alone or in partnership, his/her own business, trade, enterprise, farm or professional practice, without the help of paid employees.<br /><span class="em">FW</span> - for a person who worked without pay in a business, trade, enterprise or farm operated by a member of the same household or another relative. If the person worked for pay, he should be reported as EM or EO as described below.<br /><span class="em">A</span> - for an apprentice with or without pay.<br /><span class="em">EM </span>- for an employee paid by the month.<br /><span class="em">EO</span> - for an employee paid by day, week, fortnight or by the job, even if payment was made at the end of the month. Write EO also for persons who worked for commissions, payments on a piece rate basis or for payments in kind.</div><span class="pg">[Next Page]</span><div class="i1"><span class="em">PC</span> - for an active member of a producer's co-operative.<br /><span class="em">Other</span> - for a person whose employment status does not fall in any of the above categories; give a full description in such cases.</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's status in employment for the job the person worked the most hours at during the last week or the job worked most recently for persons not working during the last week.
Universe
Mauritius 1990: Persons age 12+ who ever worked [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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