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General Census (XVII of Population and Dwelling and VI of Housing) 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 2005 - 2006
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COL_2005_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), Minnesota Population Center
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Activity status (employment status) [general version] (EMPSTAT)

Data file: COL2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 141
End: 141
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Employed
2 Unemployed
3 Inactive
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
EMPSTAT indicates whether or not the respondent was part of the labor force -- working or seeking work -- over a specified period of time. Depending on the sample, EMPSTAT can also convey further information.

The first digit of EMPSTAT is fully comparable, and classifies the population into three groups: employed, unemployed, and inactive. The combination of employed and unemployed yields the total labor force. The second and third digits of EMPSTAT preserve additional information available for some countries and census years but not for others.

Employment status is sometimes referred to in other sources as "activity status".

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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