The variable reports the number of months during which the unemployed individual has been searching for a job.
Universe
Unemployed individuals aged 15+
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook
Imputation and derivation
Derivation
Original survey variable recoded/renamed (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)
Others
Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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The period of search reported should be the last continuous period of active search without significant interruption (significant may imply active search efforts for a continuous period of at least four weeks).
COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Generated by summing two variables Q231M (job search duration in months) and Q231Y (job search duration in years) after multiplying it by 12 to convert it to months.