IHSN Survey Catalog
  • Home
  • Microdata Catalog
  • Citations
  • Login
    Login
    Home / Central Data Catalog / SUR_2012_PHC_V01_M_V7.5_A_IPUMS / variable [P]
central

Eighth General Population and Housing Census, 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Suriname, 2012
Get Microdata
Reference ID
SUR_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
General Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
Sep 03, 2025
Last modified
Sep 03, 2025
Page views
481
  • Study Description
  • Data Dictionary
  • Get Microdata
  • Data files
  • SUR2012_PHC-H-H
  • SUR2012_PHC-P-H

Class of worker (SR2012A_CLASSWK)

Data file: SUR2012_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 230
End: 231
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Personal module</span></p>

<p><span class="h2">Persons 15 and above (employment)</span>
<br />[Questions P30 - P42 were asked of persons aged 15 and above about their employment.]</p>

<p>P30. Was this person active in the period 6 to 12 August 2012?</p>
<div class="i1">Examples of work: activities in agriculture, livestock and fisheries, selling pickles, selling newspapers, jobs, odd jobs.<br /><br />N.B.: If the person carries out unpaid work in a family business, enter code 1.<br /><br />[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No <br />[] 7 Don't know<br />[] 9 No response<br /><br />[If answer 1, go to question P32. Elsewise, go to P31.]</div><p>P31. Was this person absent from work in the period 6 to 12 August 2012 due to, for example: leave, illness, holidays, stay abroad, training, strike, weather conditions?</p>
<div class="i1">[Question P31 was asked of persons age 15+ who were not active in the period 6 to 12 August 2012, per question P30.]<br /><br />[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No<br />[] 7 Don't know<br />[] 9 No response<br /><br />[If answer 2, 7 or 9, go to P38.]</div><p>P32. This person was active as:</p>
<div class="i1">[Question P32 was asked of persons age 15+ who were active in the period 6 to 12 August 2012, per question P30 or who were not active in that period but absent from work due to, for example: leave, illness, holidays, stay abroad, training, strike, or weather conditions, per question P31.]<br /><br />[] 1 Employer <br />[] 2 Self-employed person<br />[] 3 Unpaid worker in family business<br />[] 4 Civil servant<br />[] 5 Employee with parastatal institution<br />[] 6 An employee of a private business / NGO<br />[] 7 Employed at private household<br />[] 8 Trainee<br />[] 9 Volunteer<br />[] 10 Member of a worker co-operative<br />[] 97 Don't know<br />[] 99 No response</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Employer
02 Self-employed person
03 Unpaid worker in family business
04 Civil servant
05 Employee with parastatal institution
06 Employee of a private business
07 Employed at private household
08 Volunteer
09 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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's employment status.
Universe
Suriname 2012: Persons age 15 to 64 who were employed [discrepancies: type I 0.5% ; type II none]

concept

Concept
Back to Catalog
IHSN Survey Catalog

© IHSN Survey Catalog, All Rights Reserved.