Swiss Federal Population Census of 1980 - IPUMS Subset

Switzerland, 1980

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Reference ID

CHE_1980_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Federal Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center

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Time to commute (travel duration) to work (CH1980A_0423)

Data file: CHE1980-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 194

End: 194

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

B. Questions to employed, students and school-children from 1st primary class upwards

[Drivers, railway employees, building workers, etc., indicate their place or work]

[Commercial travelers write 'traveling']

12. Duration of one journey to work or to school:

[] None (I go to work or school in the building I live)
[] Up to 15 minutes
[] 16 to 30 minutes
[] 31 to 45 minutes
[] 46 minutes to 1 hour
[] Over 1 hour

Categories

Value	Category
1	No commuting distance (works in same building as residence)
2	Up to 15 minutes
3	16-30 minutes
4	31-60 minutes
5	More than 1 hour
8	Unknown
9	NIU (not in 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

Question 12: Time for commuting

The time to be counted is from leaving home to arriving at the place of work. Persons coming home only on weekends enter the time of commuting during the week, not from their home on the weekend.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the duration of time the person uses to commute to work.

Universe

Employed persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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