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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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Looked for work (VN2009A_UNEMP)

Data file: VNM2009_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 217
End: 217
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="VN09A420">28. During the last 30 days, did you look for any work?<br /><div class="i1">[Question 28 was asked of persons age 15 or older who did not work nor receive a wage/salary without working during the previous 7 days, and did not have a job to return to during the following 30 days, as per questions 20-22]<br />[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No (go to Q30)</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="VN09A420"><span class="em">Question 28: During the last 30 days, did you look for any work?</span><br />This question is only asked of persons who answered "No" (marked (x) in the small box next to code "2") in Question 22.<br /><br />Activities of seeking work include: registering name at a government or private employment office; submitting applications to employers; checking for jobs at establishments; checking for jobs on the radio/television/newspaper; finding help from relatives/friends, etc.<br /><br />If the respondent answers "Yes", the enumerator marks (x) in the small box next to code "1", and then asks Question 29. If the respondent answers "No", the enumerator marks (x) in the small box next to code "2", and then skips to Question 30, not to ask Question 29.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates if the person looked for work in the last 30 days.
Universe
Vietnam 2009: Persons age 15+ who were not at work, on salary, and did not have a job to return to [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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