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2000 Housing and Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Mauritius, 2000
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MUS_2000_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 (MU2000A_CLASSWK)

Data file: MUS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 309
End: 310
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">[Population census form]</span></p>

<p><span class="em">For persons aged 12 years and over. </span>
<br />(Questions 28 to 33 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.)</p>

<p>32. Employment status _</p>
<div class="i1">Insert as appropriate:<br /><br />[] 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 / trainee with or without pay<br />[] EM - employee paid by day, week, fortnight, job<br />[] PC - member of producers' cooperative<br />[] OTHER - 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/her farm or business
04 Apprentice or trainee with or without pay
05 Employee paid by month
06 Employee paid by day, week, fortnight, job
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="h3">7. Instructions on how to fill in the census form</span></p>

<p>[Columns 28 to 33 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.]</p>

<p><span class="em">Column 32 - Employment status</span>
<br />Insert as appropriate:</p>
<div class="i1">SEE- 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 />SEW - 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 />FW- 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 />A- for an apprentice with or without pay;<br />EM- for an employee paid by the month.<br />EO- 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.<br />PC- for an active member of a producer's co-operative.<br />OTHER- 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 employment status during the previous week.
Universe
Mauritius 2000: Persons age 12+ who ever worked [discrepancies: type I trace; type II 0.2%]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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