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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
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GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Woman has job from which she was absent in past week (B_JOBABSENT)

Data file: GHA2008-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 543
End: 543
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
809. Although you did not work in the last seven days, do you have any job or business from which you were absent for leave, illness, vacation, maternity leave or any other such reason?

YES 1 (GO TO 811)
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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
For women who did not work in the past 7 days, JOBABSENT (V714A) indicates whether the woman had a job or business from which she was temporarily absent, due to leave, illness, vacation, maternity leave, or other reasons.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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