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The United Republic of Tanzania, Population Census 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 1988
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TZA_1988_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Status in employment (TZ1988A_CLASSWK)

Data file: TZA1988_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 207
End: 207
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="TZ88A413 TZ88A414 TZ88A415 TZ88A416 TZ88A417 TZ88A418"><span class="h2">Persons 5 years and older</span><br />[Applied to questions 14 to 18]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="TZ88A418"><span class="em">If in Q.17 the code filled is 12, skip to question 19.</span><br />[Question 18 was asked "00" to people who responded with a code 12 in question Q17. However, code 12 is not documented.]<br /><br />18. Is [the respondent] an:<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Employer<br />[] 2 Employee<br />[] 3 Own account/<span class="lang">shamba</span><br />[] 4 Unpaid family worker<br />[] 5 Other not specified</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Employer
2 Employee
3 Own account
4 Unpaid family worker
5 Other
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Unknown
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 employment status (e.g. employer, employee, etc). The data are only available for persons age 10 and older, instead of 5 and older (as indicated on the enumeration form).
Universe
Tanzania 1988: Persons age 10+ who are employed [discrepancies: none]

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