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Population and Housing Census 2007 - IPUMS Subset

Ethiopia, 2007
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ETH_2007_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Agency, Minnesota Population Center
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Available to work next month (ET2007A_0420)

Data file: ETH2007-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 185
End: 186
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Section 3: Details of persons in the household


[Questions 21-25 were asked of long form respondents' age 10+.]


22. Is [the respondent] available to work during the coming month?

If "yes," record 01. If "no," record the reason.
[] 1 Available
[] 2 Personal/family affair
[] 3 Student/training
[] 4 Homemaking
[] 5 Disabled
[] 6 Injury/illness
[] 7 Too young
[] 8 Old age/pensioner/remittance
[] 9 Other
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes, available
2 No, personal or family affair
3 No, student or in training
4 No, homemaking
5 No, disabled
6 No, injury or illness
7 No, too young
8 No, old age, pensioner, or receiving remittances
9 No, other reason
99 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 21 - 24:- Economic Activity

In this section the enumerators collect data regarding the economic activities and indicators of unemployment characteristics during the last seven days and the last twelve months prior to the date of enumeration.


Question 22:- Is [the respondent] available to work during the coming month?

Question 22 concern the availability criterion. It is formulated in conditional terms, asking whether the person would have been able and ready to start work, if an opportunity for work had been offered during the reference period. This question should be appropriately amended to refer to ability and readiness to start work within 3 weeks. Regular students are said to be ready to work if and only if they are full time available to work. Even though the part time students claim to ready, they will not be taken as they were ready to work and asked reasons for that and choice code 3 education/ training.

This question presents for those who replied code 3 in question 21, refer for those did not have any work for payment or self-employment but available to work in the coming month including the weeks of enumeration. If they are ready to work, choose code 1; If not available to work, choose any one from code 2-9 alternatives provided.

1 = Available
2 = Personal/ family affairs
3 = Student/ Training
4 = Home making without payment
5 = Disabled
6 = Injury/ Illness
7 = Too young
8 = Old age/Pensioned/Remittance
9 = Others (instance: Delivery/pregnancy etc...)


Note: Additional notes can be found from Question No. 23 for above alternative answers.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person is available for work the next month following the Census.
Universe
Long form respondents 10+ not engaged in economic activity

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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