Labor Force Survey 1991

Philippines, 1991

Reference ID

PHL_1991_QLFS-Q2_v01_M

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National Statistics Office

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Number of weeks looking for work (WEEKS)

Data file: 1991apr

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Width: 3

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

This question is asked if the person who had no job or business looked for work during the past week.

Literal question

Column 25 - How many weeks has __ been looking for work?

Categories

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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

Enter in column 25 the number of weeks the person has exerted effort to find work.

The purpose of this question is to determine the length of time that the person had used in seeking for work. The answer should refer to the continuous time period devoted to job search from the time he started to exert effort to look for a job up to the reference week. If the person started looking for work sometime ago and stopped for a while before resuming his search for employment, report in this column only the length of time (in number of weeks) starting with the time he resumed to look for work.

Question post text

After asking the number of weeks looking for work, skip to column 27.

Description

Definition

Number of weeks the person has exerted effort to find work.

Universe

For persons 10 years old and over who had no job or business.

concept

Concept

Name
The purpose of this question is to determine the length of time that the person had used in seeking for work. The answer should refer to the continuous time period devoted to job search from the time he started to exert effort to look for a job up to the reference week. If the person started looking for work sometime ago and stopped for a while before resuming his search for employment, report in this column only the length of time (in number of weeks) starting with the time he resumed to look for work. The purpose of this question is to determine the length of time that the person had used in seeking for work. The answer should refer to the continuous time period devoted to job search from the time he started to exert effort to look for a job up to the reference week. If the person started looking for work sometime ago and stopped for a while before resuming his search for employment, report in this column only the length of time (in number of weeks) starting with the time he resumed to look for work.

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