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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Length of unemployment (NG2008A_0414)

Data file: NGA2008-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 149

End: 149

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]

13. Length of unemployment

(From the last paid work)

[] 1 Less than 1 month
[] 2 Between 1 and 2 months
[] 3 Between 2 and 3 months
[] 4 Between 3 and 4 months
[] 5 More than 4 months
[] 6 Never had a paid work

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Less than 1 month
2	Between 1 and 2 months
3	Between 2 and 3 months
4	Between 3 and 4 months
5	More than 4 months
6	Never had paid job
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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's length of unemployment.

Universe

Persons age 10+ who did nothing the previous week, not retired or invalid

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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