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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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Type of establishment (MU1990A_EMPSECT)

Data file: MUS1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 274
End: 275
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><span class="em">[Questions 29 to 34 refer to the person's job or business during the past week. If person had no job last week, answer for his/her last job. If person had more than one job last week, answer for the job at which he/she worked the most hours.]</span></p>

<p>29 Name and type of establishment ____</p>
<div class="i1">Give the name of the establishment, factory, firm, government ministry, municipal or district council, parastatal body, co-operative enterprise, etc., for which the person worked, including details of branch, division, department, etc.<br />If there is no name, give name of employer.<br />If self-employed, give name of business shop, agency, etc., or write the person's own name.<br />If employed by a private household as cook, driver, watchman, gardener, household worker, maidservant, etc., write 'private household'.</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Central government
02 Local government: municipal councils
03 Local government: district councils
04 Public enterprises
05 Private enterprises, sugar
06 Private enterprises, export processing zone (EPZ)
07 Private enterprises, other
08 Private household services
09 Cooperative enterprises
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 29</span>
<br /><span class="h3">Name and type of establishment</span>
<br />Write the name of the establishment, factory, firm, government ministry, municipal or district council, parastatal body, cooperative enterprise, etc., for which the person worked, including details of branch, division, department, etc. Please do not use abbreviations.</p>
<div class="i1">If the establishment has no name (e.g. a sugar cane plantation, an attorney's office, a medical practice), write the name of the employer.<br />If the person was self-employed, write the name of his/her business, shop, agency, etc. If the business does not have a name, write the person's own name.<br />If the person worked as an employee in a private household (e.g. as cook, driver, watchman, gardener, laundress, maidservant, etc.), write 'Private household'.</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the sector of establishment of 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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