... the way it was. Through the 'temporary' and 'select if' commands when status equals 1, the data set was restricted to only self-employed respondents. Then with the 'freq vars' command the number of self-employed females and self-employed males were extracted. At the same time the ratio of females to males in this sub-sample were calculated. The process was repeated for the other three employment statuses so that the gender difference could be observed. Next the 'select if' command for status 2 was used without the 'temporary' command. This restricted the data set for the rest of the observations to only the employed respondents. Then all the observations from then on were extracted from the data via the 'temporary' and 'select if' commands; restricting the data set to firstly females then males (male=0 or male=1) for each observation. The average number of hours worked in a normal week was calculated, for both males ...

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