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IX National Population and Housing Census, 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 2010
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DOM_2010_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), IPUMS
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Looked for work previous four weeks or tried to form an own business (DO2010A_LOOKWKMO)

Data file: DOM2010_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 270
End: 270
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">For persons age 10 or older</span></p>

<p>48. During the last four weeks, has [the respondent] looked for a paid job or tried to establish his/her own business or company?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes (skip to question 51)<br />[] 2 No</div>
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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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="em">Question 48. </span>During the last four weeks, has [the respondent] looked for a paid job or tried to establish his/her own business or company?
<br />Notice that the period this question refers to is the four weeks prior to the census. Ask if the person being surveyed looked for work or was trying to establish his/her own business or company, during the four weeks before the census.
<br />If the informant answers "Yes" fill in the bubble next to code 1 and skip to question 51. If the informant answers No, fill in the bubble for code 2 and continue with question 49.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person looked for work during the previous four weeks.
Universe
Dominican Republic 2010: Persons age 10+ who did not work in the previous week [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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