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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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Unpaid work last week (DO2002A_UNPDLWK)

Data file: DOM2002_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 286
End: 286
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

<p>48. Last week, did [the respondent] help, without payment or gain, in the business, farm or economic activity of a family member?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes (Skip to question 50) <br />[] 2 No</div>
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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>For the census purposes we distinguish between work that is <span class="ital">paid or earns something in kind and unpaid or non-remunerated work. </span></p>

<p><span class="em">Paid Work or Earnings in kind </span>refers to the production of good and services that a person works on and that generates him/her an income in cash or in kind, being a salary or in kind. The paid work can be of two types: </p>
<div class="i1">a) Fix payment: is an established payment that is given regularly by an institution, business, company to a specific person or family house, that in exchange works a workday for profit. <br /><br />b) Other type of remunerated work refers to the irregular activities and occupations, commonly worked independently although the person might get help from family members for which the person gains some sort of profit.</div><span class="em">Unpaid or non-remunerated work</span> is the activity of producing goods and services that a person does as a help to a business, company or family farm in which he/she does not receive any remuneration or payment.</p>

<p><span class="em">Question 48: During the past week did (NAME) helped in a business, farm or a family activity, in which he/she did not receive any remuneration?</span></p>

<p>Fill in the correct answer.
<br />1. If the person helped a relative or a business, or farm or family activity during the previous week of the census, fill in the corresponding "Yes" bubble and then skip to question 50.
<br />2. In case that the person did not help a relative or in a family activity, farm, business during the previous week of the census, fill in the corresponding "No" bubble and then continue to the following question.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates that a person did some unpaid work in the previous week.
Universe
Dominican Republic 2002: Persons age 10+ who did not work or earn money in previous week [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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