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VIII National Population and Housing Census, 2002 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 2002
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DOM_2002_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), IPUMS
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Looked for work previous week (DO2002A_LOOKLW)

Data file: DOM2002_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 299
End: 299
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">For persons of 10 years old and more</span></p>

<p>If the answer to questions 46 or 47 or 48 was "yes", skip to question 59.</p>

<p>55. Last week, did [the respondent] seek work for payment or gain, or try to establish his/her own business or enterprise?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes (Skip to question 59) <br />[] 2 No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="em">For people age 10 or older </span></p>

<p><span class="em">Question 55: During the last week, was (NAME) looking for a paid job or trying to establish his/her own business or company?</span></p>

<p>This question should be posed only if the interviewee answered "No" in questions 46, 47 and 48.
<br />If the answer is "Yes" fill it in and skip to question 59.
<br />If the answer is "No" fill it in and continue to the following question.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates that a person looked for work in the previous week.
Universe
Dominican Republic 2002: Persons age 10+ who did not work last week [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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