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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 2 Questionnaire progression table: Malawi 2008 Census economic activity questions

From: On the logical structure of census and survey questionnaires

Row

From

Filter

To

1

BEGINsection5

All

P20_empstat

2

P20_empstat

P20_empstat=2

P21_nowork

3

P20_empstat

P20_empstat=1

P25_occ2

4

P21_nowork

P21_nowork=0:1

P22_subsist

5

P21_nowork

P21_nowork=3:5

P23_availab

6

P21_nowork

P21_nowork=2

P25_occ2

7

P22_subsist

P22_subsist=4:5

P23_availab

8

P22_subsist

P22_subsist=1:3

P25_occ2

9

P23_availab

P23_availab=1

P24_looking

10

P23_availab

P23_availab=2

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11

P24_looking

P24_looking=2

P25_occ2

12

P24_looking

P24_looking=0:1

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13

P25_occ2

All

P26_classwk

14

P26_classwk

All

P27_ind2

15

P27_ind2

All

ENDsection5

  1. Having asked and recorded the response to the From question, the interviewer asks the To question for the progression for which the filter is TRUE. Compare Figs. 2a and 3. Questions are identified using the questionnaire item label and the corresponding IPUMS-assigned variable name. The notation variable=x:y signifies that the variable code lies between x and y inclusive