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1970 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1970
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USA_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Labor force status (US1970A_LABFORCE)

Data file: USA1970_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 266
End: 266
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">23. When was this person born? </span><div class="i1">[] Born before April 1956 - Please go on with questions 24 through 41.<br />[] Born April 1956 or later - Please omit questions 24 through 41 and go to the next page for the next person.</div><svar v="US70A444 US70A445 US70A456 US70A482 US70A483 US70A493 US70A458 US70A450 US70A451 US70A446 US70A447 US70A452 US70A476 US70A477 US70A478 US70A460 US70A454 US70A462 US70A463 US70A465 US70A466 US70A467 US70A468 US70A470"><span class="em">Questions 29 through 41 are for all persons born before April 1956 including housewives, students, or disabled persons as well as part-time or full-time workers. </span><br /></svar></p>

<p>[All]
<br /><svar a="all" v="US70A444 US70A445"><span class="em">29a. Did this person work at any time last week? </span><br /><br /><div class="i1">[] Yes - Fill this circle if this person did full- or part-time work. (Count part-time work such as a Saturday job, delivering papers, or helping without pay in a family business or farm; and active duty in the Armed Forces.<br /><br />[] No - Fill this circle if this person did not work, or did only own housework, school work, or volunteer work. Skip to 30</div><br /></svar></p>

<p>[All]
<br /><span class="em">30. Does this person have a job or business from which he was temporarily absent or on layoff last week? </span><div class="i1">[] Yes, on layoff<br />[] Yes, on vacation, temporary illness, labor dispute, etc.<br />[] No</div><p>"Mark <span class="em">No</span> if he works only during certain seasons or is "on call" to work when needed."
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 No, not in the labor force
2 Yes, in the labor force
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 whether a person participated in the labor force.
Universe
United States 1970: Persons age 14+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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