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Census of Population and Housing 1981, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Spain, 1981
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ESP_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas (INE), IPUMS
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Employment status (ES1981A_EMPSTAT)

Data file: ESP1981_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 201
End: 201
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="ES81A419 ES81A431"><span class="em">12. Which of the following describes your current situation?</span><br />Refer to the week of February 22-28, 1981.<br />Mark with an X the box that corresponds to your answer.<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Fulfilling military service<br />[] 2 Working<br />-in a paid occupation, profession, or job.<br />-without pay, helping with the family business or farm, for 15 hours or more per week <br />[] 3 Looking for your first job<br />[] 4 Unemployed and looking for work, having worked previously<br />[] 5 Retired, collecting a pension, etc.<br />[] 6 Living off investments (living off income from rental properties, dividends, or other capital income)<br />[] 7 Elementary school student (including those enrolled in pre-school) or other student<br />[] 8 Keeping house<br />[] 9 Permanently handicapped and unable to work<br />[] 0 Other (e.g., children not in school, persons in the interval between school graduation and beginning a job search)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 Others (minors who do not go to school, applicants, etc)
1 Completing military service
2 Working (in a job, profession or paid employment/in a family help situation, 15 hours or more per week without pay)
3 Looking for first employment
4 Unemployed and looking for work, having worked previously
5 Retired, collection pension, etc.
6 Rent earner (lives off of rents, dividends or other investments)
7 Attend school (including pre-school or student)
8 Dedicated to household chores
9 Permanently incapacitated for work
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 respondent's relationship to her economic activity (i.e., working, unemployed, etc.).
Universe
Spain 1981: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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