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1980 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 1980
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MYS_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS
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Employment status (MY1980A_CLASSWK)

Data file: MYS1980_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 220
End: 220
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">For persons 10 years of age and over</span>
<br /> [Questions 25-44b were asked of those who are 10 years old or over.]</p>

<p>[Questions 31-34 were asked of persons other than those who did not work for pay or profit, at least 1 day during the last 7 days, did not help in a family farm or business at least one day during the last 7 days, did not have any employment, work on farm, enterprise or other family enterprise to return to, and were not seeking work during the last 7 days.]</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MY80A427">31. What is your employment status?<br /><div class="i1">[] Employer<br />[] Employee<br />[] Own account worker<br />[] Unpaid family worker<br />[] Looking for first job (Skip to 35a)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 Employer (persons who employ one or more persons)
2 Employee (persons who work for someone for pay)
3 Own Account Worker (persons who work by themselves and do not employ anybody else though they may have family helpers)
4 Unpaid Family Worker (persons who work without pay in a farm or business run by another member of the family)
5 Looking for first job (persons who have never worked before and are actively seeking employment for the first time)
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 employment status.
Universe
Malaysia 1980: Persons age 10+ who are employed [discrepancies: none]

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