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General Population Census of 1968 - IPUMS Subset

France, 1968
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FRA_1968_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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INSEE (Institut National de la Statisque et des Etudes Economiques), IPUMS
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Unemployment duration (FR1968A_UNEMP)

Data file: FRA1968_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 189
End: 189
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="FR68A401 FR68A405 FR68A406 FR68A408 FR68A414 FR68A425 FR68A427 FR68A429 FR68A430 FR68A433 FR68A437 FR68A438 FR68A439"><span class="em">Professional activity (for all persons born before January 1st, 1954)</span><br />[Applies to questions 12- 18]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="FR68A408" v="FR68A408 FR68A430"><span class="h3">17. If you are currently without work and if you are looking for some:</span><br /><div class="i1">a. Have you already worked?</div><br /><div class="i2">[] Yes<br />[] No</div><br /><div class="i1">b. What is your occupation? ____<br />c. How long have you been looking for work?</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 less than 3 months<br />[] 2 from 3 to 6 months<br />[] 3 from 6 months to less than a year<br />[] 4 a year or more</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 Unemployed never having looked for work
1 Unemployed having already worked and looking for work for less than 3 months
2 Unemployed having already worked and looking for work for 3 to 6 months
3 Unemployed having already worked and looking for work for 6 months to less than a year
4 Unemployed having already worked and looking for work for more than a year
5 Unemployed having already worked and looking for work for an unknown period of time
6 Unemployed and not knowing if person has worked before or not
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
<svar a="all" v="FR68A408 FR68A430"><span class="em">Question 17: The case of the unemployed and those who are looking for work.</span><br />This question concerns all people having or having not already worked, who fulfill the following conditions simultaneously:<br />a) do not have a job:<br />b) are actively looking for work.<br />Do not apply to these people the label "unemployed" which is sometimes judged offensive and which has a slightly different connotation.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's unemployment history.
Universe
France 1968: Persons who are unemployed [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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