STATISTICAL MICRODATA
This archive provides information describing the content, methodology and implementation of census and survey conducted by the NSO of Mongolia, as well as descriptions of micro data files with the variable documentation.

Mongolia - HSES 2002/2003

HSES
Reference ID MNG-NSO-EN-IntegratedHIESwithLSMS20022003-v1.0
Year 2002 - 2003
Country Mongolia
Producer(s) National Statistical Office of Mongolia
Sponsor(s) United Nations Development Programme - UNDP - Funding of survey implementation
World Bank - WB - Funding of survey implementation
Collection(s)
Household Socio-Economic Survey
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Reason you didn't look for work in the past 7 days (b05114)
File: rt022
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-12
Valid cases: 6098
Invalid: 5774
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 12
Universe
Household members (usual residents) aged 10 years or above and who didn't work for others, on own account and in other enterprise in the past 7 days and have not a permanent job and didn't look for work in the past 7 days
Source of information
The eligible household member or head of household or other responsible household member
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 Student 3579 58.7%
2 Housewife/childcare 290 4.8%
3 Childcare too expensive 6 0.1%
4 Too old/retired 873 14.3%
5 Waiting for reply from employer 81 1.3%
6 Migration 11 0.2%
7 No work available 701 11.5%
8 Waiting for busy season 39 0.6%
9 Illness 195 3.2%
10 Family member ill 19 0.3%
11 Handicapped 109 1.8%
12 Other 195 3.2%
Sysmiss 5774
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.
Questions and instructions
Literal question
What is the main reason you/[NAME] did not look for work in the past 7 days?
Post question
If answer is 1 > Go to question 20 of Employment module, otherwise Go to question 16 of Employment module
Interviewer instructions
Ask the main reason that a household member did not look for a job in last 7 days and write the answer with the following code.

Student - 1 (Students attending all levels of school fill this code and skip to the question 20 of Employment module)
Housewife/childcare - 2
Childcare too expensive - 3
Too old/retired - 4
Waiting for reply from employer - 5
Migration - 6
No work available - 7
Waiting for busy season - 8
Illness - 9
Family member ill - 10
Handicapped - 11
Other - 12

National Statistical Office of Mongolia