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XII Recenseamento Geral da População e II Recenseamento Geral da Habitação - IPUMS Subset

Portugal, 1981
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PRT_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Portugal Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), IPUMS
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Source of livelihood (PT1981A_INCSRC)

Data file: PRT1981_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 233
End: 233
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="PT81A401 PT81A403 PT81A405 PT81A406 PT81A407 PT81A408 PT81A409 PT81A410 PT81A411 PT81A412 PT81A415 PT81A416 PT81A417 PT81A418 PT81A419 PT81A420 PT81A421 PT81A422 PT81A423 PT81A424 PT81A425 PT81A426 PT81A427 PT81A428 PT81A429">[Questions 5-27 were asked of residents of the housing unit, per question 4]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="PT81A405 PT81A419 PT81A420 PT81A421 PT81A422 PT81A423 PT81A424 PT81A425">[Questions 17-27 were asked of persons age 12+]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PT81A424">17. Source of livelihood<br /><div class="i1">Indicate main source of livelihood:<br /><br />[] 1 Work<br />[] 2 Temporary benefits - Unemployment<br />[] 3 Temporary benefits - Sickness, accident, etc.<br />[] 4 Temporary benefits - Others Sickness, accident, etc.<br />[] 5 Household support<br />[] 6 Pensions of any kind (reform, pension, handicap, social, etc.) [-- go to question 18]<br />[] 7 Social support<br />[] 8 Property or entrepreneurial income<br />[] 9 Other situation</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><span class="h3">Question 17 - Source of livelihood</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Important:</span> since you can only mark one answer, you will have to choose, among the "Source of livelihood" options, the one that mostly contributes to satisfy your living necessities.</p>
<ul class="b1">
<li><span class="ital">Work</span>: includes persons who mainly live from their work, whether she gets paid or not. People in the compulsory military service should mark this option.</li>

<li><span class="ital">Household support</span>: includes persons supported by their family (homemaker who only works at home, students, children, etc.)</li>

<li><span class="ital">Pensions of any kind</span>: includes persons who receive a pension, as long as the amount received exceeds that of any other source of livelihood they could have.</li>

<li><span class="ital">Social support</span>: includes persons whose main means of survival is assistance provided within a institution or not, by the State, by private non-profit organizations, or by individuals.</li>

<li><span class="ital">Property income</span>: includes persons whose subsistence is mainly financed by rent collected from property, interests, profits, dividends, royalties, etc.</li>
</ul>
Categories
Value Category
1 Work
2 Temporary benefits - unemployment
3 Temporary benefits - sickness, accident, etc.
4 Temporary benefits - others
5 Household support
6 Pensions of any kind
7 Social support
8 Property or entrepreneurial income
9 Other situation
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's income comes from work, temporary benefits, household support, pensions of any kind, social support, property or other source.
Universe
Portugal 1981: All persons

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