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 the latter by 12 to convert the durations provided years to months.