Mother worked in Country of Birth
Datafile
Index term
Question asked in the latest wave:
migrationbackground_w9.majcb
Question label:
Mother worked in Country of Birth
Question text:
Did your mother ever work in her country of birth before she moved to the UK?
Question universe:
if (FF_UKBORN = 5 & ff_1STWAVE <=6 & (GRIDVARIABLES.FBORN = 1 & GRIDVARIABLES.IEMB 1)) | (FF_UKBORN = 5 & (ff_1STWAVE = 7|8)) | INITIALCONDITIONS.UKBORN = 5 (Respondent is foreign born and entered the study at wave 6 or earlier and household is in the Foreign Born Sample but not in the IEMB sample OR Respondent is foreign born and entered the study at wave 7 or later)
and if (FAMILYBACKGROUND.MACOB > 4 | FF_MACOB > 4) & (FAMILYBACKGROUND.MAYRUK = 1 | FF_MAYRUK = 1) & DV2UK16 = 1 & (FAMILYBACKGROUND.MAJU = 1 | FF_MAJU = 1) (Respondent's Mother not born in UK AND Mother came to live in UK AND R came to the UK aged less than 16 AND Mother working when R aged 14)
and if MAJUKEVR = 1 | MAJUK = 1 (Mother has ever worked in the UK OR father's job when R was 14 was in the UK)
Further details:
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| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 34794 | 96.49% |
| proxy | -7 | 1096 | 3.04% |
| don't know | -1 | 15 | 0.04% |
| Yes | 1 | 96 | 0.27% |
| No | 2 | 57 | 0.16% |
| Total | 36058 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Only available for IEMB | -11 | 40577 | 89.79% |
| inapplicable | -8 | 4182 | 9.25% |
| proxy | -7 | 195 | 0.43% |
| don't know | -1 | 28 | 0.06% |
| yes | 1 | 149 | 0.33% |
| no | 2 | 61 | 0.13% |
| Total | 45192 | 100.0% |
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