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National Census of Housing and Population 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Bolivia, 2012
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BOL_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and Coordination, Republic of Bolivia, IPUMS
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Sep 03, 2025
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Occupation (1 digit) (BO2012A_OCC)

Data file: BOL2012_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 321
End: 322
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">F3. Only for people at least 7 years old</span></p>

<p>42. What was your principal occupation, job, or trade in the last week? ____</p>
<div class="i1">(For example, write: mine driller, auto mechanic, grocer, primary school teacher, call-shop operator, etc.)</div>
Categories
Value Category
00 Armed forces
01 Managers of government bodies and companies
02 Scientific and intellectual professionals
03 Technicians and associate professionals
04 Office workers
05 Services and sales workers
06 Agricultural, forestry, and fishery workers
07 Building, manufacturing, and other trades workers
08 Plant and machine operators and assembles
09 Elementary occupations
98 Unknown
99 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h3">F3. Only for people at least 7 years old<br />Economic characteristics of the population </span></p>

<p><span class="em">42. Principal occupation</span>
<br />The principal occupation, job, or trade means the type of work the employed person performed in the week before Census Day. The question about the principal occupation is an open-ended question, and the answer should be written down as clearly as possible in the appropriate line. For example, mine driller, auto mechanic, grocer, primary school teacher, call-shop operator.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's main occupation (1 digit).
Universe
Bolivia 2012: Persons age 7+ who worked or were engaged in any productive activity last week [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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