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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Approximate daily earnings (B_WKINCOMEDAY)

Data file: ZAF1998-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 459
End: 465
Width: 7
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1021 How much do you usually earn for this work?
PROBE: Is this by the day, by the week, or by the month?

PER HOUR 1 _____
PER DAY 2 _____
PER WEEK 3 ______
PER MONTH 4 ______
PER YEAR 5 ______
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____________________ 9999996
Categories
Value Category
9999995 9999995+
9999997 Don't know
9999998 Missing
9999999 NIU (not in universe)
9999994 Not paid in cash
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
For respondents who reported earning cash for their work, WKINCOMEDAY (V737) is a 7-digit numeric variable that reports the respondent's daily earnings. The values are estimated from the earnings and unit reported in WKINCOME (V736).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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