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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
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, IPUMS
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Sep 03, 2025
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  • MUS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Job search during past 4 weeks (MU2000A_WKLOOK)

Data file: MUS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 281
End: 281
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>25. Did the person take any active steps to look for work or set up a business of his/her own, any time during the past 4 weeks?</p>
<div class="i1">For example, did he/she check with employers or at private homes, factories and work sites; place or answer advertisements; seek assistance and advice to set up own business or enterprise; maintain registration with an Employment Exchange, etc. Insert 'yes' or 'no' as appropriate.<br /><br />[] Yes <br />[] No</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="h3">7. Instructions on how to fill in the census form</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Column 25 - Job search</span>
<br />Write 'Yes" if the person took any active steps to look for work any time during the past 4 weeks; e.g., if he/she checked with employers or at private homes, factories and worksites, placed or answered job advertisements, sought assistance and advice to set up his/her own enterprise, maintained registration with an Employment Exchange, etc.
<br />If the person did not take any active steps to look for work or set up a business during the past 4 weeks, write 'No'.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person was searching for work at any time during the past four weeks.
Universe
Mauritius 2000: Persons age 12+ without a job last week [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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