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Federal Population Census 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Switzerland, 2011
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CHE_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Federal Department of Home Affairs / Federal Statistical Office, IPUMS
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Current occupation (1-digit, ISCO-08) (CH2011A_OCC)

Data file: CHE2011_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 293
End: 294
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Personal questionnaire</span></p>

<p>Questions 12, 13 and 14 apply to people in employment only, including apprentices.</p>

<p>12. What is your present occupation? ________</p>
<div class="i1">Indicate the exact title of your job, e.g.: office worker (instead of employee), court clerk (instead master of laws), metal grinder (instead of grinder), painter (artist) (instead of painter), primary teacher (instead of teacher), sales director (instead of director).<br /><br />If you have more than one job, enter your main occupation. Your main occupation is the one on which you spend the most time.</div>
Categories
Value Category
00 Armed forces occupations
01 Managers
02 Professionals
03 Technicians and associate professionals
04 Clerical support workers
05 Services and sales workers
06 Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
07 Craft and related trades workers
08 Plant and machine operators and assemblers
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.

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Universe
Switzerland 2011: Economically active persons [discrepancies: none]

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