IX National Population and Housing Census 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 2010

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Reference ID

DOM_2010_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

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Dec 22, 2014

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Looked for work previous four weeks or tried to form an own business (DO2010A_0438)

Data file: DOM2010-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 247

End: 247

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For persons age 10 or older

48. During the last four weeks, has [the respondent] looked for a paid job or tried to establish his/her own business or company?

[] 1 Yes (skip to question 51)
[] 2 No

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No
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 48. During the last four weeks, has [the respondent] looked for a paid job or tried to establish his/her own business or company?

Notice that the period this question refers to is the four weeks prior to the census. Ask if the person being surveyed looked for work or was trying to establish his/her own business or company, during the four weeks before the census.

If the informant answers "Yes" fill in the bubble next to code 1 and skip to question 51. If the informant answers No, fill in the bubble for code 2 and continue with question 49.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person looked for work during the previous four weeks.

Universe

Persons age 10+ who did not work in the previous week

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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