General Household Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2009

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Reference ID

NGA_2008_GHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Bureau of Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

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Dec 22, 2014

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Reason for doing nothing (NG2008A_0413)

Data file: NGA2008-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 148

End: 148

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Part B: Persons(s) present in household continued? (For persons age 10 years and above)
[Applies to questions 11-63]

12. If person did nothing, what was the reason?

(If options 6-8 go to col. 27)

[] 1 Looked for job
[] 2 Sick
[] 3 Believed no job available
[] 4 Laid off 30 days or less
[] 5 Waiting to join work
[] 6 Retired
[] 7 Invalid
[] 8 Others

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	Looking for job
2	Sick
3	Believed no job available
4	Laid off 30 days or less
5	Waiting to join work
6	Retired
7	Invalid
8	Other
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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's reason for doing nothing.

Universe

Persons age 10+ who did nothing the previous week

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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