Seventh General Population and Housing Census, 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Suriname, 2004

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SUR_2004_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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General Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

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Industry (SR2004A_IND)

Data file: SUR2004_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 152

End: 153

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h1">Personal form</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Working in main profession</span>
<br />[Question P18 to P20 were asked of persons working.]</p>

<p>P19. Where did this person work? </p>
<div class="i1">Record:<br />1) Name of the business ____<br />2) Activity of the business ____</div><p>P20. What kind of work did this person do?</p>
<div class="i1">Record the description of the activities to be performed. _____<br />N.B.!!!!!!! "Civil servant" is not a proper description.<br /><br />Proceed to P23</div>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Agriculture, hunting, forestry, fishing and fish farming
02	Mining and quarrying
03	Manufacturing
04	Electricity, gas and water supply
05	Construction
06	Whole sale and retail trade
07	Hotels, restaurants and bars
08	Transport, storage and communications
09	Financial intermediation
10	Real estate, renting and business activities
11	Public administration and defense
12	Education
13	Health and social work
14	Other service activities
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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the industry in which the person works.

Universe

Suriname 2004: Persons age 12+ who were employed [discrepancies: none]

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Concept

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