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Mainstage Variable

pajcb

Father worked in Country of Birth

Datafile

Index term

Question asked in the latest wave:

migrationbackground_w9.pajcb

Question label:

Father worked in Country of Birth

Question text:

Did your father ever work in his country of birth before he 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.PACOB > 4 | FF_PACOB > 4) & (FAMILYBACKGROUND.PAYRUK = 1 | FF_PAYRUK = 1) & DV2UK16 = 1 & (FAMILYBACKGROUND.PAJU = 1 | FF_PAJU = 1) (Respondent's Father not born in UK AND father came to live in UK AND R came to the UK aged less than 16 AND Father working when R aged 14)
and if PAJUKEVR = 1 | PAJUK = 1 (Father 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 labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
inapplicable-83470496.24%
proxy-710963.04%
don't know-1150.04%
Yes11900.53%
No2530.15%
Total36058100.0%

Value labelValueAbsolute frequencyRelative frequency
Only available for IEMB-114057789.79%
inapplicable-840568.98%
proxy-71950.43%
don't know-1530.12%
yes12300.51%
no2810.18%
Total45192100.0%

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