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1990 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1990
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USA_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Absent from work last week (US1990A_ABSENT)

Data file: USA1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 327
End: 327
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">31a. Last year (1989), did this person work, even for a few days, at a paid job or in a business or farm? </span><div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No -- Skip to 32</div><p>[Look at the instructions for question 21a to see what to count as work.]</p>

<p><span class="em">31b. How many weeks did this person work in 1989? </span>
<br />Count paid vacation, paid sick leave, and military service.</p>
<div class="i1">____ Weeks</div><p>[Count every week in which the person did any work at all, even for an hour.]</p>

<p><span class="em">31c. During the weeks worked in 1989, how many hours did this person usually work each week? </span><div class="i1">____ Hours</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 No
2 Yes, laid off
3 Yes, other reason (vacation, illness, labor disput
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 whether persons who did not work during the previous week had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent and, if so, whether they were absent due to a layoff or for some other reason.
Universe
United States 1990: Persons age 16+, not at work during the previous week [discrepancies: type I: none, type II: 3.7%]

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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