IHSN Survey Catalog
  • Home
  • Microdata Catalog
  • Citations
  • Login
    Login
    Home / Central Data Catalog / USA_2005_PHC_V01_M_V7.5_A_IPUMS / variable [P]
central

2005 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2001 - 2005
Get Microdata
Reference ID
USA_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
Sep 03, 2025
Last modified
Sep 03, 2025
Page views
10470
  • Study Description
  • Data Dictionary
  • Get Microdata
  • Data files
  • USA2005_PHC-H-H
  • USA2005_PHC-P-H

Looking for work (US2005A_LOOKING)

Data file: USA2005_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 347
End: 347
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
29. a) Last week, was this person on layoff from a job?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes <span class="ital">--&gt; Skip to question 29c</span><br />[] No</div><p>[Q.29 b is asked if the person was on layoff from a job the week before.]</p>

<p>b) Last week, was this person temporarily absent from a job or business?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes, on vacation, temporary illness, labor dispute, etc., <span class="ital">--&gt; Skip to question 32</span><br />[] No <span class="ital">--&gt; Skip to question 30</span></div><p>[Q. 29 c is asked if the person was temporarily absent from a job or business the week before.]</p>

<p>c) Has this person been informed that he or she will be recalled to work within the next 6 months OR been given a date to return to work?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes <span class="ital">--&gt; Skip to question 31</span><br />[] No</div><p>[Q.30 is asked if the person hasn't been informed that he or she will be recalled to work within the next 6 months or been given a date to return to work.]</p>

<p>30. Has this person been looking for work during the last 4 weeks?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No <span class="ital">--&gt; Skip to question 32</span></div>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 No, did not look for work
2 Yes, looked for work
3 Not reported
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 or not persons who did not work during the previous week had actively sought a job or pursued opening their own business or professional practice within the past four weeks.
Universe
United States 2005: Persons age 15+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
Back to Catalog
IHSN Survey Catalog

© IHSN Survey Catalog, All Rights Reserved.