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1970 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 1970
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MYS_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS
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Type of economic activity last week (MY1970A_ACTIV)

Data file: MYS1970_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 189
End: 189
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions 25-44 were asked of persons age 10+.]</p>

<p>Before asking questions 25-34 explain that the questions are for the previous 7 day period only</p>

<p><svar a="MY70A422" v="MY70A422 MY70A421">25. Did you have a regular job or business?<br /><div class="i1">[] Yes (Skip to 30)<br />[] No</div><br /></svar></p>

<p>26. Did you help in a family business or farm?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No (Skip to 28)</div><svar a="MY70A424" v="MY70A424 MY70A421">28. Did you earn any money by working or by selling home made goods?<br /><div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No</div><br /></svar></p>

<p>29. Did you look for work?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Employed
2 Unemployed
3 Looking after house
4 Student
5 Other
8 Unknown
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of the economic activity during last 7 days.
Universe
Malaysia 1970: Persons age 10+ [discrepancies: none]

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