2015 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2011 - 2015

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Reference ID

USA_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

United States Census Bureau, IPUMS

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Looking for work within the last month (US2015A_LOOKING)

Data file: USA2015_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 351

End: 351

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

[K] - Answer questions 35-38 only if this person did not work last week. Otherwise, skip to question 39a.</p>

<p>36. During the last 4 week, has this person been actively looking for work? </p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No [Skip to question 38]</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 the person was looking for work within the last month.

Universe

United States 2015: Persons age 16+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

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