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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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Sep 03, 2025
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  • MUS1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Available for work last week (MU1990A_WKAVAIL)

Data file: MUS1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 270
End: 270
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>27 Type of activity ____</p>
<div class="i1">Was the person available for work during the past week?<br />Write 'yes' or 'no'.<br /><br />If 'no', give reason as follows:</div><div class="i2">[] HH - household duties<br />[] ST - studies<br />[] DIS - illness, injury, or disability<br />[] WR - wholly retired<br />[] Other, specify ____</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No, household duties
3 No, studies
4 No, illness, injury, or disability
5 No, retired
6 No, other
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 27</span>
<br /><span class="h3">Availability for work</span>
<br />If the person was available for work during the past week, write 'yes'.
<br />If the person was not available for work, write 'no' and give the reason as follows:</p>
<div class="i1"><span class="em">HH</span>- for a person who was engaged in or helping with household duties in his/her own home.<br /><span class="em">ST</span> - for a person who was studying.<br /><span class="em">DIS</span> - for a person who was sick, injured or disabled.<br /><span class="em">WR</span> - for a wholly retired person.<br /><span class="pg">[Next Page]</span><br /><span class="em">Other</span> - for a person who was not available for work because of other reasons; details should be given, e.g. person was a rentier, or a child not going to school and too young to work.</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates if the person was available for work during the past week.
Universe
Mauritius 1990: Persons age 12+ who did not work last week and did not have a job [discrepancies: type I 0.1; type II trace]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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