Home / Central Data Catalog / USA_1980_PHC_V01_M_V7.5_A_IPUMS / variable [P]
central

1980 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1980
Get Microdata
Reference ID
USA_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
Sep 03, 2025
Last modified
Sep 03, 2025
Page views
1856

Hours worked last week, intervalled (US1980A_HRSWORK2)

Data file: USA1980_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 309
End: 309
Width: 1
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
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 1 -14 hours
2 15 -29 hours
3 30 -34 hours
4 35 -39 hours
5 40 hours
6 41 -48 hours
7 49 -59 hours
8 60+ hours
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. Responses are given in intervals (1-14 hours, 15-29 hours, and so on), instead of as a precise number of hours.
Universe
United States 1980: Persons age 16+, at work last week [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Back to Catalog