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

Nicaragua, 2005
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NIC_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, IPUMS
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Work status last week (NI2005A_WORKED)

Data file: NIC2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 260
End: 260
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="NI05A427 NI05A428 NI05A429 NI05A430 NI05A431 NI05A432 NI05A433 NI05A434 NI05A435 NI05A436 NI05A437 NI05A438 NI05A439 NI05A440 NI05A441 NI05A442 NI05A456">[Questions 19-31 were asked of persons age 10 or older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="NI05A427 NI05A456">19. Did [the person] work during the last week?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Yes (continue to question 26)<br />[] 2 No</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Worked during the reference week
2 Did not work during the reference week
3 Inactive in institutional dwelling
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
<svar v="NI05A427 NI05A428 NI05A429 NI05A430 NI05A431 NI05A432 NI05A433"><span class="h3">Definitions:</span><br /><br /><span class="em">Work</span><br />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.<br /><br /><span class="em">Not work</span><br /><ul class="b1">
<li>Unpaid household tasks and work on a person's own dwelling.</li>
</ul><br /><ul class="b1">
<li>Unpaid volunteer work for a church, fire department or other non-profit institution.</li>
</ul><br /><ul class="b1">
<li>Work done by persons who are involuntarily confined to an institution such as a jail, sanitarium, asylum, penal farm, etc.</li>
</ul><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="NI05A427 NI05A428 NI05A429 NI05A430 NI05A431 NI05A432 NI05A433 NI05A434 NI05A435 NI05A436 NI05A437 NI05A438 NI05A439 NI05A440 NI05A441 NI05A442"><span class="h2">For persons age 10 or older (Questions 19-31)</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="NI05A427 NI05A456"><span class="em">Question 19. Did [the person] work during the last week?</span><br /><br />In this question consider persons who worked at least one hour last week.<br /><br />Mark an "X" next to the option stated by the informant.<br /><br />If the answer is "Yes", go to question 26.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's work status last week.
Universe
Nicaragua 2005: Persons age 10+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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