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2015 The Puerto Rico Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 2011 - 2015
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PRI_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Labor force status last week (PR2015A_LABFORCE)

Data file: PRI2015_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 309
End: 309
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">L</span> <span class="ital">Answer questions 41-46 if this person worked in the past 5 years. Otherwise, skip to question 7.</span></p>

<p><span class="em"><br />41-46 Current or most recent job activity. Describe clearly this person's chief job activity or business last week. If this person had more than one job, describe the one at which this person worked the most hours. If this person had no job or business last week, give information for his/her last job or business.<br /></span></p>

<p>41. Was this person </p>
<div class="i1">Mark (x) one box<br />[] An employee of a private for-profit company or business, or of an individual, for wages, salary, or commissions?<br />[] An employee of a private not-for-profit, tax-exempt, or charitable organization?<br />[] A local government employee (city, county, municipio, etc.)?<br />[] A state government employee?<br />[] A Federal government employee?<br />[] Self-employed in own not incorporated business, professional practice, or farm?<br />[] Self-employed in own incorporated business, professional practice, or farm?<br />[] working without pay in family business or farm?</div>
Categories
Value Category
No, not in the labor force
1 Yes, in the labor force
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's labor force status.
Universe
Puerto Rico 2015: Persons age 16+ [discrepancies: none]

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