1980 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1980

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USA_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Hours worked last week (US1980A_HRSWORK1)

Data file: USA1980_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 307

End: 308

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="US80A458 US80A459 US80A460 US80A461 US80A462 US80A465 US80A466"><span class="em">31a. Last year (1979), did this person work, even for a few days, at a paid job or in a business or farm? </span><br /><div class="i1">[] Yes<br /><br /><span class="em">31b. How many weeks did this person work in 1979? </span></div><br /><div class="i2">Count paid vacation, paid sick leave, and military service.<br /><br />[Look at the instructions for question 22a to see what to count as work.]<br /><br />____ Weeks<br /><br />[Count every week in which the person did any work at all, even for an hour.]</div><br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">31c. During the weeks worked in 1979, how many hours did this person usually work each week? </span></div><br /><div class="i2">____ Hours<br /><br />[If the hours worked each week varied considerably, give the best estimate of the hours usually worked most weeks.]</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">[] No -- Skip to 31d</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
00	NIU (not in universe)
01	1
02	2
03	3
04	4
05	5
06	6
07	7
08	8
09	9
10	10
11	11
12	12
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88	88
89	89
90	90
91	91
92	92
93	93
94	94
95	95
96	96
97	97
98	98
99	99+

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 total number of hours the respondent was at work during the previous week. For employers and the self-employed, this includes all hours spent attending to their operation(s) or enterprise(s). For employees, it is the number of hours they spent at work. For unpaid family workers, it is the number of hours they spent doing work directly related to the family business or farm.

Universe

United States 1980: Persons age 16+, at work last week [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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