The variable reports the number of months during which the unemployed individual had stayed without work since graduation or since he/she left the last held 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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COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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The original variable indicating Unemployment duration in months (unemp_prd) is not reported for those who are unemployed (not seeking a job) (MAS_D=230). Thus, the generated variable for those cases is missing.
Those who are arranging to take up paid/self-employment activity (MAS_D= 131) and also who are waiting for the start date of an agreed work (MAS_D= 132) were excluded while generating this variable, because they were considered employed in the harmonized data.