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Household Socio-Economic Survey 1994

Thailand, 1994 - 1995
Reference ID
THA_1994_SES_v01_M
Producer(s)
National Statistical Office
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Nov 21, 2011
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Mar 29, 2019
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  • r1 - Household
    characteristics,
    household head
  • r2 - Household
    Member
    Characteristics
  • r7 - 7-day Food
    Consumption
  • r3 - Income
    from Other
    Sources
  • r4 - Change of
    Assets and
    Liabilities
  • r8 - Household
    Income
  • r9 - Energy
    Consumption
  • r10 - Summary
    Household
    Expenditure
  • r6 -
    Consumption on
    Goods and
    Services
  • r5 - Housing
    Characteristics

Work status primary job (b09)

Data file: r2 - Household Member Characteristics

Overview

Valid: 76499
Invalid: 17463
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 27
End: 27
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
For item 11 and item 12, ask household members who have primary occupation in economic activities only.
Literal question
Work status
Categories
Value Category
1 Employer
2 Own-account Worker
3 Employee - Private
4 Employee - Government
5 Unpaid Family Worker
6 Unemployed
7 Economically Inactive
8
9 No Occupation
Sysmiss
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
Work Status
Work status was classified into 7 different categories as follows:
(1) An employer was defined as a person who operated his or her own enterprise for profit or dividends and hired one or more persons as his or her employee.
(2) An own-account worker in the form of a partnership either for profit or dividends and hired no employees.
(3) A private employee was a person who worked for pay in a government agency, a government enterprise as well as an international organization.
(5) An unpaid family member was a person worked without pay on a farm or in a business owned or operated by the household head or other household members.
(6) A person looking for work was a person who did not work at all during the last 52 weeks but has applied for work either at business establishments or by mailing letters of application.
(7) An economically inactive person was one of the following:
a) a housewife or person who worked around the house
b) a student
c) a retired person
d) a disabled person who was unable to work because of physical or mental disability or because of chronic illness
e) a person doing nothing who was voluntarily idle, and
f) a beggar
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