Dataset: The Health of Houston Survey 2018

Variable emp_rsn: Reason for not working last week [S]

Literal Question

The variable was created from multiple survey questions, specifically EMP_2 and EMP_3.

Descriptive Text

The universe for this variable includes all adult respondents age 18 and older who were not at work, or not employed last week.

Values Categories N NW
1 Taking care of home 326 247,922.3
 17.6%
2 On vacation 137 77,270.3
 5.5%
3 Unable to find job 153 108,113.3
 7.7%
4 Going to school 210 133,673.1
 9.5%
5 Retired 1059 358,742.0
 25.5%
6 Disabled 333 182,357.4
 12.9%
7 Temporarily out of work 141 93,125.1
 6.6%
8 Layoff or strike 77 47,312.7
 3.4%
9 Family, medical or maternity leave 106 60,220.9
 4.3%
10 Other 147 100,320.9
 7.1%
-8 Not in universe 4521 3,186,983.3

Summary Statistics

Valid cases 2689 1409058.043
Missing cases 4521 3186983.276
Standard deviation 2.299 2.611
This variable is numeric

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