National Census. Eighth Census of Population Fourth Census of Dwellings 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Nicaragua, 2005

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NIC_2005_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, Minnesota Population Center

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Looking for work last two weeks (NI2005A_0429)

Data file: NIC2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 227

End: 227

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

[Questions 19-31 were asked of persons age 10 or older]

21. Did [the person] look for work in the past two weeks?

[] 1 Yes (continue to question 24)
[] 2 No

Categories

Value	Category
1	Looked for work
2	Did not look for work
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.

Interviewer instructions

Definitions:

Work
This is when a person spends at least one hour a week performing any economic activity and earns profits, wages, or a salary or another type of payment in money or in kind, or as an unpaid worker.

Not work
Unpaid household tasks and work on a person's own dwelling.
Unpaid volunteer work for a church, fire department or other non-profit institution.
Work done by persons who are involuntarily confined to an institution such as a jail, sanitarium, asylum, penal farm, etc.

For persons age 10 or older (Questions 19-31)

Question 21. Did [the person] look for work in the past two weeks?

Mark an "X" next to the option stated by the informant.

If the answer is "Yes", go to question 24.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates if the person was looking for work during the last two weeks.

Universe

Persons age 10+ who did not have a job last week

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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