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IX General Population and Housing Census, 1970 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 1970
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MEX_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Dirección General de Estadística, Secretaría de Industria y Comercio, IPUMS
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Class of worker (MX1970A_CLASSWKR)

Data file: MEX1970_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 216
End: 216
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="MX70A414 MX70A415 MX70A416 MX70A417 MX70A418 MX70A419 MX70A420 MX70A421 MX70A422 MX70A423 MX70A424 MX70A425"><span class="em">For persons twelve years old or more</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MX70A420">16. Work situation in 1969. Mark with an X<br /><br />In the main employment that this person had in 1969:<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Worked in a family business without pay<br />[] 2 Worked as boss, businessman or employer<br />[] 3 Worked as a day laborer or rural agricultural laborer<br />[] 4 Worked as a laborer or employee<br />[] 5 Self employed<br />[] 6 Common land agricultural worker (<span class="lang">ejidatario</span>)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 Unpaid family worker
2 Owner
3 Day laborer or rural agricultural laborer
4 Worker or professional employee
5 Own-account
6 Farmer in a common land
9 Unknown/missing
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 employment status in 1969.
Universe
Mexico 1970: Persons age 12+ who are working for pay or on own-account and currently unemployed [discrepancies: type I 2.5%; type II none]

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