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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Why stop working (p4_26)

Data file: SLCHBS2016

Overview

Valid: 864

Invalid: 3710

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 491

End: 491

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Why did you (...) stop working?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Lost job	162	18.8%
2	Job completed	185	21.4%
3	Resigned to study	17	2%
4	Resigned to take care of children	45	5.2%
5	Retrenched	29	3.4%
6	Business failed	61	7.1%
7	Moved to new area	25	2.9%
8	Other . Specify	340	39.4%
Sysmiss		3710

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

at this point we wish to find out that if the respondent did work at some time, then what were the reasons he left the job. Note that for option 1 - "lost job" refers to situation where the respondent was fired. Remember to specify if option 8 is selected.

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