SES Combined socio-economic data
Malawi
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DDI-MWI-MEIRU-SES-2007-v01b
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- combined_ses_hh
- combined_ses_ind
Employment status (S) (emp)
Data file: combined_ses_ind
Overview
Valid:
248319
Invalid:
251176
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
64
End:
66
Width:
3
Range:
0 - 999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Not applicable | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | Full-time educaton | 73716 |
29.7%
|
| 12 | Unable to work | 3200 |
1.3%
|
| 13 | Retired | 2069 |
0.8%
|
| 14 | Looking for work | 679 |
0.3%
|
| 19 | Other | 135 |
0.1%
|
| 20 | Housework | 4485 |
1.8%
|
| 30 | Employer no sub-category | 45 |
0%
|
| 31 | Runs own business | 567 |
0.2%
|
| 33 | ???? | 0 |
0%
|
| 41 | In cash economy | 20026 |
8.1%
|
| 42 | Subsistence economy | 127989 |
51.5%
|
| 49 | Own account don't know payment | 373 |
0.2%
|
| 51 | Salary (monthly) | 11149 |
4.5%
|
| 52 | Wage (weekly) | 371 |
0.1%
|
| 53 | Casual or piecework | 2888 |
1.2%
|
| 54 | Unpaid worker | 279 |
0.1%
|
| 59 | Employee don't know payment | 140 |
0.1%
|
| 99 | No information | 208 |
0.1%
|
| 998 | Unknown | 0 |
0%
|
| 999 | Missing | 0 | |
| Sysmiss | 251176 |
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
Employment status
Imputation and derivation
Derivation
variable: emp (table[s]: cen_individ, crs_cenm, css_sei_all, combined_tb_cases_controls_final [derived table])