The 1990 Population and Housing Census of Thailand - IPUMS Subset

Thailand, 1990

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THA_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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National Statistical Office, IPUMS

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Reason for not working (TH1990A_REASWORK)

Data file: THA1990_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 228

End: 229

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="TH90A427 TH90A428" v="TH90A427 TH90A428 TH90A429">L25. Last week occupation<br />During March 25-31 1990, what job did (name) spend most of the time working on?<br /><div class="i1">Ask only persons age 13 years and over or persons born before1977<br /><br />Example; typist, accountant, teacher, farmer, etc. and skip to L27.<br />If did not work, enter 'not work'.</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="TH90A429">L26. Reason for not working<br />Why (name) did not work?<br /><div class="i1">Ask only persons age 13 years and over or persons born before1977<br /><br />Example: looking for work, waiting for farm season, study, home worker, aged, young, ill, disable, pensioner, millionaire, priest, etc.</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Looking for work, inexperienced
02	Looking for work, experienced worker
03	Waiting for farm season
04	Housewife
05	Student
06	Unable to work
07	Elderly
08	Priest, nun
09	Institutional
10	Wealthy
11	Pension
12	Sick
13	Waiting to be called to work
14	Not interested in working
15	Other
98	Unknown
99	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 reason the person was not working last week.

Universe

Thailand 1990: Persons age 13+ who are not working [discrepancies: none]

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Concept

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