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VII Recenseamento Geral do Brasil. Censo Demográfico de 1960. - IPUMS Subset

Brazil, 1960
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BRA_1960_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Servico Nacional de Recenseamento. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, IPUMS
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Class of worker (BR1960A_CLASSWK)

Data file: BRA1960_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 220
End: 220
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="BR60A423 BR60A424 BR60A425 BR60A426"><span class="h2">Only for people who worked in the year prior to the census date</span><br />[Applies to questions V - Z]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="BR60A426"><span class="h3">Z. Position in the occupation declared in question V</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">[] 85 public employee<br />[] 86 private employee<br />[] 87 self-employed<br />[] 88 partner (part or half ownership)<br />[] 89 employer<br />[] 90 member of family or institution</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Family member
2 Public employee
3 Private employee
4 Self-employed
5 Sharecropper
6 Employer
9 Don't Know
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
<svar v="BR60A423 BR60A424 BR60A425 BR60A426"><span class="h3">The following questions will only be asked of those persons who worked during the year preceding the date of the census<br />(September 1, 1959, to August 31, 1960)</span><br />[Applies to questions V - Z]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="BR60A426"><span class="h3">Question Z - Position in the occupation declared in Question V.</span><br /><br />The field with the response should be marked with an X, observing the following definitions:<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Public employee</span> - For those who receive remuneration from an organ of a federal, state or municipal government or of a government-owned company. Construction workers paid by the day will not be included in this group;<br /><span class="em">Private employee</span> - For those who receive monetary payment or payment in kind (part of the production) for work which is rendered by the individual, company or institution. Persons such as Construction workers paid by the day by an organ of public administration will be included in this group;<br /><span class="em">Work by self-employed persons</span> - For persons who exercise their activity individually or with the help of persons in the family (provided that these latter do not receive monetary payment);<br /><span class="em">Sharecropper</span> - For those who work in a type of economic activity with a certain degree of autonomy (growing of crops, livestock raising, fishing, etc.) and who pay part of their production for the right to exercise this activity. In this case, sharecroppers who work individually or with the help of persons in the family (provided that these latter do not receive monetary payment) will be considered sharecroppers. Those who have employees should be classified as employers;<br /><span class="em">Employer</span> - For those who are engaged, with their own resources, in a line of economic activity and who employ one or more employees. Persons who have only domestic help will not be included in this group;<br /><span class="em">Members of the family or institution</span> - For those who help in the work of the head of the family or of other persons in the family and do not receive monetary payment and for those who are part of a religious, educational or charitable institution, etc. and do not receive direct remuneration.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the position in the workplace: whether the respondent is a public employee, private employee, self-employed, etc.
Universe
Brazil 1960: Persons age 10+ who are in the labor force [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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