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2011 Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Mauritius, 2011
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MUS_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, IPUMS
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Sep 03, 2025
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Occupation (1-digit) (MU2011A_OCC1)

Data file: MUS2011_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 343
End: 344
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Individual form</span></p>

<p>The following questions [questions 29 through 34] refer to the person's work during the reference week Monday 27 June to Sunday 3 July 2011. If the person is retired or had no job during that week, answer for his/her last job. If the person has more than one job, answer for the job at which he/she worked the most hours. [For persons aged 12 years and older]</p>

<p>P32. Occupation ____</p>
<div class="i1">Write the kind of work/business the person did most of the time. Use precise terms such as accounts clerk, school clerk, taxi car driver, lorry driver, statistician, pre-primary teacher, etc.</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Managers
02 Professionals
03 Technicians and associate professionals
04 Clerical support workers
05 Service 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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h1">6. Population census topics and their usefulness</span></p>

<p><span class="em">P32 - Occupation</span>
<br />The number of employed people in each occupation, coupled with other job market information, helps to determine whether there is any shortage or surplus of manpower in specific fields. The information is needed to forecast the demand for certain occupations and to prepare people for these jobs.</p>

<p><span class="h1">8. How to fill in the Population Census Questionnaire</span></p>

<p><span class="em">P32 - Occupation</span>
<br />[figure omitted]</p>

<p>Describe as clearly and as precisely as possible the work, which the person was doing during the reference week. Do not describe the job for which the person has been trained, but the job, which he was actually doing. For example, if during the reference week, a lorry driver worked as a bricklayer, write 'Bricklayer'.</p>

<p>Do not use vague terms such as clerk, driver, factory worker, supervisor, repair technician, teacher, etc. Use precise terms such as filing clerk, accounts clerk, bus driver, bus conductor, cabinet maker, supervisor of sewing machine operators, supervisor of road repair workers, car repair mechanic, television repair technician, telephone operator, pre-primary school teacher, etc.</p>

<p>An example is given for a pre-primary school teacher. [figure omitted]</p>

<p>For members of religious orders engaged in activities such as primary school teaching, nursing, etc., report these activities rather than their religious activities.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's occupation (1-digit).
Universe
Mauritius 2011: Persons age 12+ who ever worked [discrepancies: type I 0.5%; type II 0.2%]

concept

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