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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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Sep 03, 2025
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Available for work during past week (MU2000A_WKAVAIL)

Data file: MUS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 282
End: 282
Width: 1
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 />[Column 22 to 34 were asked of persons aged 12 years and older.]</p>

<p><span class="em">Type of activity </span>
<br />[Questions 23 through 26 relate to the type of activity a person is involved with. These questions were asked of persons aged 12 year and older.]</p>

<p>26. Was the person available for work during the past week? </p>
<div class="i1">Write 'yes' or 'no'. <br /><br />[] Yes<br />[] 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 - other (specify)</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No, household duties
3 No, studies
4 No, disability
5 No, wholly retired
6 No, other reasons
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="h3">7. Instructions on how to fill in the census form</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Column 26 - 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">HH: for a person who was engaged in or helping with household duties in his/her own home;<br />ST: for a person who was studying;<br />DIS: for a person who was sick, injured or disabled;<br />WR: for a wholly retired person;<br />OTHER: 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 whether the person was available for work during the previous week.
Universe
Mauritius 2000: Persons age 12+ without a job last week [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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