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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
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, IPUMS
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Temporarily away from work (MU1990A_WKABS)

Data file: MUS1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 268
End: 268
Width: 1
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>25 Type of activity ____</p>
<div class="i1">Was there a job, business, family enterprise or agricultural holding or farm, at which the person did not work because of illness, injury, holiday, industrial dispute, off-season inactivity, temporary disorganization, etc.?<br />If there was a job, business, enterprise or farm from which the person was temporarily absent, write 'yes' and go to col. 29.<br />If the person did not hold a job, write 'no' and continue with col. 26.</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
8 Unknown
9 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 column 18 for children under 2 years of age<br />Note that columns 19-21 are for persons aged 2 years and over</span></p>

<p><span class="h2">Column 25</span>
<br /><span class="h3">With job but not worked</span>
<br />This question asks whether there was a job, business, family enterprise, plantation or farm at which the person did not work last week because of illness, injury, holiday, industrial dispute, offseason inactivity or temporary disorganization.</p>
<div class="i1">If there was such a job, business, enterprise, plantation or farm from which the person was temporari1y absent write 'yes'.<br />If the person did not hold a job last week, write 'no'.</div><span class="em">Skip to column 29 if yes is entered in column 25</span>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates if the person was temporarily absent from work during the past week due to illness, injury, vacation, holidy, industrial inactivity, or seasonal inactivity, etc.
Universe
Mauritius 1990: Persons age 12+ who did not work last week [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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