High Frequency Phone Survey 2020-2021

Iraq, 2020 - 2021

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IRQ_2020-2021_HFPS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

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The World Bank, World Food Program

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Agricultural Surveys

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Aug 10, 2021

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What was your main employment status prior to the lockdown of the country i.e. d (EMP1)

Data file: ihfps_august_2020.dta

Overview

Valid: 1621

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 6

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 1

Start: 142

End: 144

Width: 3

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now I would like to ask about your pre-lockdown and current employment status.

Literal question

What was your main employment status prior to the lockdown of the country i.e. during 1 to 14 March 2020?

[Employment refers to any income generating/productive activity carried out for at least one hour.]

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Working for wage/salary for someone, an enterprise, company or government	863	53.2%
2	Working on own account or enterprise belonging to the household	127	7.8%
3	Unpaid work in a business or farm owned by a household (Contributing family member)	9	0.6%
4	Cash for work	197	12.2%
5	Â "Did not have any job and seeking for job "	145	8.9%
6	Â "Did not have any job and not seeking for job "	280	17.3%

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.

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