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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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Type of establishment of employment (MU2000A_EMPSECT)

Data file: MUS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 285
End: 286
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>28. 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 /><br />If there is no name, give name of employer. <br /><br />If self-employed, give name of business shop, agency, etc., or write the person's own name. <br /><br />If employed by a private household as cook, driver, watchman, gardener, household worker, maidservant, etc., write 'private household'.</div>
Categories
Value Category
00 Central government
01 Municipal council
02 District council
03 Publicly owned and/or controlled enterprises
04 Privately owned enterprises: sugar
05 Privately owned enterprises: EPZ establishment
06 Privately owned enterprises: other
07 Private household services
08 Co-operative 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="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 28 - <br />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.
<br />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'.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of establishment for which the person worked.
Universe
Mauritius 2000: 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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