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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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Whether earn any money by working or selling home made goods (MY1970A_EARNER)

Data file: MYS1970_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 192
End: 192
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="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>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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 whether the person earned any money by working or selling home made goods for the last 7 days.
Universe
Malaysia 1970: Persons age 10+ who had no regular job but helped in family business less than 3 hours per day [discrepancies: type I 1.1%; type II none]

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