Saint Lucia Survey of Living Conditions and Household Budgets 2016

St. Lucia, 2015 - 2016

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LCA-CSO-SLCHBS-2016-V1.0

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Central Statistical Office (CSO)

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St. Lucia

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Economic activity (p4_2)

Data file: SLCHBS2016

Overview

Valid: 3526

Invalid: 1048

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 222

End: 222

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

2 Did you/%rostertitle% work for pay, profit or family gain last week?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes - worked for pay (salary, wages or for profit in own bus	1843	52.3%
2	Yes - worked for pay in kind	57	1.6%
3	Yes - did volunteer work	6	0.2%
4	Yes - produce for own consumption	35	1%
5	Yes - job trainee, intern unpaid	2	0.1%
6	No - did not work	1583	44.9%
Sysmiss		1048

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.

Interviewer instructions

Here we include both formal and informal work, both paid and unpaid work, including work on the agricultural holding. If the person worked at any time in the previous seven days, record ‘Yes’ and skip to Q4.9. If the person did no work at all in the previous seven days, the interviewer will record No and continue with Q4.3.

Question post text

Note: Domestic work at home is excluded

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