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The Population and Housing Census of Thailand 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Thailand, 2000
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National Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center
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Work status (TH2000A_0416)

Data file: THA2000-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 188
End: 189
Width: 2
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
For persons 13 years and over
[Questions S13-L21 were asked of all individuals 13 years and older]




S16. Work status

[] 1 Employer
[] 2 Own account worker
[] 3 Government officer
[] 4 Government employee
[] 5 Government enterprise employee
[] 6 Private employee
[] 7 Unpaid family worker
[] 8 Member of producers' cooperative
Categories
Value Category
1 Employer
2 Own account worker
3 Government officer
4 Government employee
5 Government enterprise employee
6 Private employee
7 Unpaid family worker
8 Members of producers' cooperatives
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.
Interviewer instructions
23. Work status
This refers to the status or position of a person working, which can be divided into:

23.1 Employer
Employer is a person who owns his/her business alone or with a partner for profit and employs other person(s) to work for him as employee(s). Employer in this case does not mean a person who hires other people to work for him in a household, which is not considered a business (such as a person hired to cook, clean or as laundry worker).




23.2 Own account worker
This is a person who conducts business alone or may have other persons working in the business for profit or business partner but does not employ any employees. However, in some cases, there may be member(s) in his family or trainee(s) who help him in his work without receiving any wages or income in return for the work that they perform.



23.3 Employee
Employees are those who work in return for a wage or income per month, per day, or per job. Alternatively, they may receive commission in return for the work or service they perform. The commission may be in the form of money or things.

Employees may be divided into three types:

a) Government employee

[p. 41]

This refers to a civil servant, municipality officer, officer of the Provincial Administration Organization, personnel of the International Organization. This classification includes temporary and permanent employees.



b) Government enterprise employee
This refers to those who work for the government enterprise



c) Private employee
Private employees are those who work for a person or private business including those who are hired for household chores such as laundry, baby sitting, cooking, and house cleaning.



23.4 Unpaid family worker

[p. 42]

This is a person who helps or works on a farm or business of a household member without receiving any wages or salary



23.5 Member of producers' cooperative
This is a group in which each member has an equal right in the enterprise and participates at all levels of the business (such as investment, selling, and other activities). Members also participate in the division of profits for all members of the group as previously agreed.



Column S13-S16 and L17-L22
[Ask persons age 13 years or older]



Column S16: Work status

[Table summarizing column S16 not presented here]

[p. 108]

Procedure for recording the form

The question asked [of respondent]: "What is your working status?"


[Question was asked of persons age 13 years or older]

Record code of the working status as follows:

[] 1 Employer


Record code "1"


[] 2 Own account worker


Record code "2"


[] 3 Government officer


Record code "3"


[] 4 Government employee


Record code "4"


[] 5 Government enterprise employee


Record code "5"


[] 6 Private employee


Record code "6"


[] 7 Unpaid family worker


Record code "7"


[] 8 Member of a producers' cooperative


Record code "8"


In recording the work status, record the code corresponding to the work status of a person, which must be the same as the main occupation a person did during the last year.

For those who work as laborers, carrying things such as rice sack, or carrying goods (they may have their own trolley) or other kinds of work that need labor and have no permanent employer service (they depend on a person to hire them for a job):


Count the work status of those people as "Private employee", and record using code "6"

Description

Definition
This variable indicates person's work status (position at work) last year.
Universe
Persons age 13+ who worked last year

concept

Concept
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Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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