Migration Survey 2004
Vietnam, 2004
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303.Main activity before migration (C303)
Data file: individual
Overview
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Questions and instructions
Literal question
What was your main activity in the last 6 months before coming here?
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | Working |
| 2 | Housewife |
| 3 | Studying |
| 4 | Unable to work |
| 5 | Unemployment, have demand |
| 6 | Unemployment, no demand |
| 9 | NR |
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
Circle only one code for suitable answer
Description
Definition
A person’s employment is defined as one of following types, include:
Ø The first type: Does affairs to get wages, salaries in cash or in kind. The person doing this work does not decide oneself his/her degree of salary, number of working hours, time interval of leave, etc.
Ø The second type: Does affairs to obtain income oneself. The person doing this work pays the whole cost and obtains the whole income in his/her work.
Ø The third type: Does work for own his/her household but he/she is not got compensation under wage, salary form.
Ø The four type: Has been working but at the moment he/she temporary rests for reasons such as: health reasons, vacation, the engine has broken down, etc.
These are main activities:
- Employed: Persons who spent most time in the last 6 months before moving to the current place to do any work for income, regardless the length of working time.
- Household work: Persons who spent most time in the last 6 month before moving to the current place to do such housework as cooking, washing dishes, looking after children, laundering, etc and are not economically active. (It does not include a person working as a paid housekeeper for another person. For a person who is paid by the household to do such work, the correct entry is code 1 “Employed”).
- “Student”: Persons who are attending regular class’s full time. An entry of code 3 should be used even if the individual does not actually go to school because of illness.
- Code 4 “Unable to work”: This applies to persons who cannot work because they are permanently disabled or are suffering from a permanent illness that prevents them from working.
- “Unemployment”: This refers to those who did not do any work for almost of the 6 months before moving. It is also included those who only do legal works. In case a person is determined “unemployment”, probe if he/ she has demand for work or not. Circle code “5” (unemployed) if the answer is “Yes” and circle code “6” if the answer is “No” (others).
Ø The first type: Does affairs to get wages, salaries in cash or in kind. The person doing this work does not decide oneself his/her degree of salary, number of working hours, time interval of leave, etc.
Ø The second type: Does affairs to obtain income oneself. The person doing this work pays the whole cost and obtains the whole income in his/her work.
Ø The third type: Does work for own his/her household but he/she is not got compensation under wage, salary form.
Ø The four type: Has been working but at the moment he/she temporary rests for reasons such as: health reasons, vacation, the engine has broken down, etc.
These are main activities:
- Employed: Persons who spent most time in the last 6 months before moving to the current place to do any work for income, regardless the length of working time.
- Household work: Persons who spent most time in the last 6 month before moving to the current place to do such housework as cooking, washing dishes, looking after children, laundering, etc and are not economically active. (It does not include a person working as a paid housekeeper for another person. For a person who is paid by the household to do such work, the correct entry is code 1 “Employed”).
- “Student”: Persons who are attending regular class’s full time. An entry of code 3 should be used even if the individual does not actually go to school because of illness.
- Code 4 “Unable to work”: This applies to persons who cannot work because they are permanently disabled or are suffering from a permanent illness that prevents them from working.
- “Unemployment”: This refers to those who did not do any work for almost of the 6 months before moving. It is also included those who only do legal works. In case a person is determined “unemployment”, probe if he/ she has demand for work or not. Circle code “5” (unemployed) if the answer is “Yes” and circle code “6” if the answer is “No” (others).