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Enquête Démographique et de Santé 1999

Guinea, 1999
Reference ID
GIN_1999_DHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Direction National de la Statistique et de l'Information (DNSI)
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Employment status [general version] (EMPSTAT)

Data file: MWI1987-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Employed
2 Unemployed
3 Inactive
9 Unknown/missing
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
EMPSTAT indicates whether or not the respondent was part of the labor force -- working or seeking work -- over a specified period of time. Depending on the sample, EMPSTAT can also convey further information.

The first digit of EMPSTAT is fully comparable, and classifies the population into three groups: employed, unemployed, and inactive. The combination of employed and unemployed yields the total labor force. The second and third digits of EMPSTAT preserve additional information available for some countries and census years but not for others.

Employment status is sometimes referred to in other sources as "activity status."

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS