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 3 months (b05118)
File: rt022
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-11
Valid cases: 2334
Invalid: 9538
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 11
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 had not any employment in the past 3 months and didn't look for a job in the last 3 months
Source of information
The eligible household member or head of household or other responsible household member
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 Housewife/childcare 253 10.8%
2 Childcare too expensive 18 0.8%
3 Too old/retired 864 37.0%
4 Waiting for reply from employer 68 2.9%
5 Migration 12 0.5%
6 No work available 602 25.8%
7 Waiting for busy season 28 1.2%
8 Illnes 185 7.9%
9 Family member ill 19 0.8%
10 Handicapped 109 4.7%
11 Other 176 7.5%
Sysmiss 9538
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 a job in the past 3 months?
Interviewer instructions
Ask the main reason that a household member did not look for a job in last 3 months and write the answer with the following code.

Housewife/childcare - 1
Childcare too expensive - 2
Too old/retired - 3
Waiting for reply from employer - 4
Migration - 5
No work available - 6
Waiting for busy season - 7
Illness - 8
Family member ill - 9
Handicapped - 10
Other - 11

National Statistical Office of Mongolia