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Mainstage Variable

majcb

Mother worked in Country of Birth

Datafile

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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:
For further details about this question, please see the questionnaires

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
inapplicable-83479496.49%
proxy-710963.04%
don't know-1150.04%
Yes1960.27%
No2570.16%
Total36058100.0%

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
Only available for IEMB-114057789.79%
inapplicable-841829.25%
proxy-71950.43%
don't know-1280.06%
yes11490.33%
no2610.13%
Total45192100.0%

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