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Noveno Censo Nacional de Población y Quinto de Vivienda de Panamá 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Panama, 1990
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PAN_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Contraloria General de la Republica, Direccion de Estadistica y Censo, IPUMS
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Employment status (PA1990A_EMPSTAT2)

Data file: PAN1990_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 241
End: 241
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="PA90A430 PA90A439 PA90A400 PA90A441 PA90A442 PA90A423 PA90A440 PA90A449 PA90A425 PA90A450 PA90A451 PA90A452"><span class="h2">VI. Degree or diploma obtained and economic characteristics.</span><br />For individuals 10 years of age and older<br />[Questions 13 - 21 were asked of people 10 years and older.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PA90A403 PA90A443">18. Do you work or did you work the last time as a . . .<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Paid employee? (Continue with question 19)<br />[] 2 Independent or own-account worker?<br />[] 3 Unpaid family worker?<br />[] 4 Owner?<br />[] 5 Member of a production cooperative or settlement (collective agricultural production or <span class="lang">asentamientos</span>)?<br />[For responses 2 - 5,] (go to to question 21)</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="PA90A431" v="PA90A431 PA90A443">19. For whom do you or did you work?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Private company?<br />[] 2 Government?<br />[] 3 Cooperative?<br />[] 4 Family house?<br />[] 5 Canal Commission?<br />[] 6 United States Armed Forces?</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 Owner
2 Own-account
3 Government employee
4 Private company employee
5 US armed forces
6 Domestic service
7 Family worker
8 Production cooperative
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.
Universe
Panama 1990: Persons age 10+ in the labor force [discrepancies: none]

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