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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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Economic activity (MX1970A_EMPSTAT)

Data file: MEX1970_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 210
End: 210
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="MX70A416">13. Last week's activities<br /><br />What did the person do last week? Mark with an X<br /><div class="i1">[ ] 1 Worked one hour or more last week for wages or salary or self employed<br />[ ] 1 Worked in family businesses fifteen hours or more in the week without pay<br />[ ] 1 Was employed but did not work (for vacation, bad weather, etc.)<br />[ ] 2 Did not have work (unemployed)<br />[ ] 3 Worked only at housework in own household<br />[ ] 4 Was in other situation (student, retired, etc.)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 Worked 1 hour or more for pay or own-account without pay
2 Did not have a job (unemployed)
3 Domestic duties
4 Other (student, retired, etc.)
9 Unknown
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 the person's employment status the week before the census.
Universe
Mexico 1970: Persons age 12+ [discrepancies: none]

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