Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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Variable is constructed for all persons administered this module in each questionnaire. For this reason the lower age cut-off (and perhaps upper age cut-off) at which information is collected will vary from country to country.
All persons are considered active in the labour force if they presently have a job (formal or informal, i.e. are employed) or do not have a job but are actively seeking work (i.e. unemployed).
Those unemployed and do not search for a job are considered inactive, hence their previous employment information, if they were ever active, is recoded missing.
COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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To generate the labor force status variable (PCLFS), both who are currently working and who are reported working but not in the 7 days preceding to the interview (temporary absent) were considered economically active. It is worth noting that another question addressed unemployed whether they are actively seeking work during the month preceding the interview and those who said yes were also considered economically active, in addition to those who are reported waiting to be back to their previous job or found a job and waiting to start in q542. While those who are reported unemployed and not seeking work are considered economically inactive (students, homemakers, has income, out of labor force, other).
