General Household Survey, 2009-10 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2010

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NGA_2009_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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National Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

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Employment status (NG2009A_EMPSTAT)

Data file: NGA2009_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 170

End: 170

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

18. Employment status</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Employer<br />[] 2 Employee<br />[] 3 Own account worker<br />[] 4 Members of producer coop.<br />[] 5 Unpaid family worker<br />[] 6 Others</div>

Categories

Value	Category
	NIU (not in universe)
1	Employer
2	Employee
3	Own account worker
4	Member of a cooperative
5	Unpaid family worker
6	Other status
9	Unknown

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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's employment status.

Universe

Nigeria 2009: Persons age 10+ with a job last week [discrepancies: type I:1.2%; type II: 0.6%]

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Concept

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