Variable migrant: Migrant workers absent from household

Literal Question

Are there any persons who are usually members of this household, but who are away for a month or more because they are migrant workers?

Descriptive Text

A complementary variable was derived for households to record whether any migrant workers were present in the household. See Migrant workers present in household for more details.

Values	Categories	N	NW
1	Migrant worker absent from hhold	111815	1,168,787.4	12.9%
2	No migrant worker absent	734616	7,889,863.4	87.1%
9	Unspecified/Dummy	47	497.9	0.0%

Summary Statistics

Valid cases	846478	9059148.74
Missing cases	0	0.0
Minimum	1.0
Maximum	9.0
This variable is numeric

Universe

All households

Notes

Each household was asked whether there were any persons who were usually members of the household, but who were away for a month or more because they were migrant workers?. The following definition of a migrant worker was also provided: ‘A migrant worker is someone who is absent from home for more than a month each year to work or to seek work.’ If the respondent answered that there were migrant workers who were usually members of the household, further details were requested for up to four migrant workers per household. This information (age, gender, relationship and current address) is available on the migrant file. The migrant file should not include migrant workers who were at home on Census Night as they would be listed as ordinary members of the household.

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