SES Combined socio-economic data
Malawi
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DDI-MWI-MEIRU-SES-2007-v01b
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- combined_ses_ind
main work status in the past 12 months? (S) (work)
Data file: combined_ses_ind
Overview
Valid:
13903
Invalid:
485592
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
72
End:
73
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 10
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Government employee | 352 |
2.5%
|
| 2 | Employee non govt | 371 |
2.7%
|
| 3 | Subsistence farmer/fisherman | 8658 |
62.3%
|
| 4 | Self employed | 1896 |
13.6%
|
| 5 | Student | 1062 |
7.6%
|
| 6 | At home housework | 838 |
6%
|
| 7 | Unemployed able to work | 96 |
0.7%
|
| 8 | Unemployed unable to work | 280 |
2%
|
| 9 | Retired | 125 |
0.9%
|
| 10 | Other | 225 |
1.6%
|
| Sysmiss | 485592 |
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
main work status in the past 12 months?
Imputation and derivation
Derivation
variable: work (table[s]: NCD_combined_data_all_final [derived table])