2020 The Puerto Rico Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 2016 - 2020

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Reference ID

PRI_2020_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS

Metadata

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Looking for work (PR2020A_LOOKING)

Data file: PRI2020_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 328

End: 328

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h3">L. Answer questions 36-39 if this person did not work last week. Otherwise, skip to question 40a.</span></p>

<p>37. During the last 4 weeks, has this person been actively looking for work?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No -- <span class="ital">Skip to question 39</span></div>

Categories

Value	Category
1	No, did not look for work
2	Yes, looked for work
3	Not reported
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

This variable indicates the looking for work.

Universe

Puerto Rico 2020: Persons age 16+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

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