General Population Census of 1975 - IPUMS Subset

France, 1975

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Reference ID

FRA_1975_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

INSEE (Institut National de la Statisque et des Etudes Economiques), Minnesota Population Center

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Employment status (FR1975A_0409)

Data file: FRA1975-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 165

End: 165

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For all people 16 years of age or older
[Applies to questions 8 -18]

17. If you are currently without work and if you are looking for some:

a. For how long have you been looking for work?

[] 1 less than 3 months
[] 2 3 to less than 6 months
[] 3 6 months to less than a year
[] 4 one year or more

b. Have you already worked?

[] Yes
[] No

c. What is your career? ____

18. If you do not work anymore:

(You are, for example, retired from public service, a retired worker, retired executive, former farmer, retired from business, etc.)

What was your principal profession? ____

Categories

Value	Category
1	Inactive people other than those cited below
2	Active people with a job
3	People without a job and looking for them
4	Formerly active people (retired, retired from business, . . . . )
5	Students born before January 1st, 1968
6	Military of the contingent

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

[Questions 8 - 18 are for persons age 16 or older]

Question 17: The case of the unemployed and those who are looking for work.
This question concerns all people having or having not already worked, who fulfill the following conditions simultaneously:
a) do not have a job:
b) are actively looking for work.
Do not apply to these people the label "unemployed" which is sometimes judged offensive and which has a slightly different connotation.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the respondent's type of activity, including whether he is inactive in the labor force.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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