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2011 Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Mauritius, 2011
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MUS_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, IPUMS
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Sep 03, 2025
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Class of worker (MU2011A_CLASSWK)

Data file: MUS2011_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 345
End: 346
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Individual form</span></p>

<p>The following questions [questions 29 through 34] refer to the person's work during the reference week Monday 27 June to Sunday 3 July 2011. If the person is retired or had no job during that week, answer for his/her last job. If the person has more than one job, answer for the job at which he/she worked the most hours. [For persons aged 12 years and older]</p>

<p>P33. Employment status</p>
<div class="i1">State if the person's employment status is:<br /><br />[] 1 Self-employed with employees<br />[] 2 Self-employed without employees<br />[] 3 Working without pay for spouse or other relative in his/her farm or business<br />[] 4 Apprentice / trainee with or without pay<br />[] 5 Employee paid by the month<br />[] 6 Employee paid by the day, week, fortnight, job<br />[] 7 Member of producers' cooperative<br />[] 8 Other - specify ____</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Self-employed with employees
02 Self-employed without employees
03 Working without pay for spouse or other relative in his or her farm or business
04 Apprentice or trainee with or without pay
05 Employee paid by month
06 Employee paid by day, week, fortnight, job
07 Member of producer's co-operative
08 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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h1">6. Population census topics and their usefulness</span></p>

<p><span class="em">P33 - Employment status</span>
<br />Employment status is not only a useful socio-economic indicator, but is also needed for planning insurance and social welfare schemes for different categories of workers.</p>

<p><span class="h1">8. How to fill in the Population Census Questionnaire</span></p>

<p><span class="em">P33 - Employment status</span>
<br />[figure omitted]</p>

<p>Shade only one box as appropriate. Note that</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Self-employed with employees stands for a self-employed person operating (alone or in partnership) his/her own business, trade, enterprise, farm or professional practice, with the help of one or more paid employees;<br />[] 2 Self-employed without employees stands for a self-employed person operating (alone or in partnership) his/her own business, trade, enterprise, farm or professional practice, without the help of paid employees;<br />[] 3 Working without pay for spouse or other relative in his/her farm or business stands for a person who worked without pay in a business, trade, enterprise or farm operated by a member of the same household or by another relative;<br />[] 4 Apprentice/ trainee with or without pay stands for an apprentice/trainee with or without pay;<br />[] 5 Employee paid by the month: self-explanatory;<br />[] 6 Employee paid by day, week, fortnight, job stands for an employee paid by day, week, fortnight or by the job, even if payment was made at the end of the month. It also applies to persons who worked for commissions, payments on a piece rate basis or for payments in kind;<br />[] 7 Member of producers' cooperative stands for an active member of a producer's cooperative;<br /> [] 8 Other relates to a person whose employment status does not fall in any of the above categories; in this case write the full description in the adjacent boxes provided.</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's employment status.
Universe
Mauritius 2011: Persons age 12+ who ever worked [discrepancies: type I 0.7%; type II 0.2%]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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