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2009 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 2009
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VNM_2009_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 2009 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., IPUMS
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Available for work (VN2009A_UNEMP1)

Data file: VNM2009_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 218
End: 218
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="VN09A411 VN09A412 VN09A413 VN09A414 VN09A415 VN09A416 VN09A417 VN09A418 VN09A419 VN09A420 VN09A421 VN09A422"><span class="em">17. If the respondent was born before April 1994 (15 years or older), [go to] Q 18; otherwise, ask the next [person]</span><br />[Questions 18-30 were asked of persons aged 15 years and over]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="VN09A421">29. During the last 7 days, would you have been available for work if you had found suitable work?<br /><div class="i1">[Question 29 was asked of persons age 15 or older who did not work nor receive a wage/salary without working during the previous 7 days, did not have a job to return to during the following 30 days, and who were looking for work during the previous 30 days, as per questions 20-22 and 28]<br />[] 1 Yes (go to Q31)<br />[] 2 No</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in the 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
<svar v="VN09A413 VN09A414 VN09A415 VN09A416 VN09A417 VN09A418 VN09A419 VN09A420 VN09A421 VN09A422"><span class="em">Questions from 20 to 30:</span> These are questions on work during the last 7 days for persons of 15 years old or more. Thus, in order to collect exact information, the enumerator must have direct interviews with these persons.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="VN09A421"><span class="em">Question 29: During the last 30 days, would you have been available for work if you had found suitable work?</span><br />This question is only asked of persons who marked (x) in the small box next to code "1" in Question 28.<br /><br />If the respondent answers "Yes", the enumerator marks (x) in the small box next to code "1", and then moves to Question 31, not to ask Question 30. <br /><br /><span class="pg">[pg.55]</span> <br /><br />If the respondent answers "No", the enumerator marks (x) in the small box next to code "2", and then asks Question 30.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates if the person was available for work during the last seven days.
Universe
Vietnam 2009: Persons age 15+ who were not at work, on salary, did not have a job to return to and who looked for work [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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