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V Censo de Población y IV de Vivienda, 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Ecuador, 1990
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ECU_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS
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Class of worker (EC1990A_CLASSWK)

Data file: ECU1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 181
End: 181
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="EC90A412 EC90A401 EC90A418 EC90A419 EC90A420 EC90A414 EC90A428 EC90A429 EC90A430 EC90A407"><span class="em">For all individuals 8 years of age and older</span><br />[Applies to questions 13-18.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v=" EC90A414 EC90A418 EC90A419 EC90A420 EC90A428 EC90A429 EC90A430 EC90A407"><span class="em">For those who answered 0, 1 or 2 in question 13 and 1 in question 14:</span><br />[Applies to questions 15-18.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="EC90A407">18. What was the position or category in the occupation indicated?<br /><div class="i1">Read the options in the order given and upon receiving an answer mark the appropriate box.<br /><br />[] 1 Owner or active partner<br />[] 2 Own-account</div><br /><div class="i1">Employee or paid worker:</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 3 Of a municipality or provincial council<br />[] 4 Of the state [<span class="lang">estado</span>, i.e., central government]<br />[] 5 Of the private sector</div><br /><div class="i1">[] 6 Unpaid family worker<br />[] 9 Unknown</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Owner or partner
2 Own-account worker
3 Municipality or council
4 State
5 Private sector
6 Family worker
9 Unknown
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 a="all" v="EC90A407"><span class="em">Question 18. What was the position or job category of the work indicated?</span><br /><br />The goal of this question is to understand the labor relationship that each person has in his/her work, activity or business that he/she indicated in question 15.<br /><br />Owner- this is the person who manages his/her own company or business or practices a profession or occupation and has one or more paid employees. For example: factory owner, owner of a clothing workshop, etc.<br /><br />Investment partner- This is a person who contributes with work or capital or with work and capital, in a specific business. For example: partner in a company where he/she provides capital.<br /><br />Self-employed- This is the person who works in his/her own company or business, profession or occupation, but without employees. For example: traveling salesman, seamstress, lawyer who practices his/her profession without a secretary, etc.<br /><br />Employee or worker- All persons who receive payment for labor in the form of hourly salary, monthly salary, daily pay, or piece work wages.<br /><br />If the person being enumerated works for the municipality or Provincial government, mark box 3.<br /><br />If the person being enumerated provides services in a public office, mark box 4.<br /><br />If the person works in a company, business, industry or other private enterprise, mark box 5.<br /><br />Unpaid family worker- This is the person who works without pay in a company, land plot, or family business. For example: the spouse who works in the grocery store owned by her spouse, etc.<br /><br /><div class="i1">What was the position or job category of the work indicated?</div><br /><div class="i1">Read the possible answers in order and when you receive and answer, mark the corresponding box.</div><br /><div class="i2">[ ] 1 Owner or active partner<br />[ ] 2 Self-employed<br />Employee or salaried worker:</div><br /><div class="i3">[ ] 3 of the municipality or provincial council<br />[ ] 4 of the State<br />[ ] 5 of the private sector</div><br /><div class="i2">[ ] 6 Unpaid family worker<br />[ ] 9 Don't know</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's class of worker and/or economic sector of employment.
Universe
Ecuador 1990: Persons age 8+ who were employed, unemployed, or an unpaid worker [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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