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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Occupation (SR2004A_OCC)

Data file: SUR2004_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 154

End: 155

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	Legislators, senior officials and managers
02	Professionals
03	Technicians and associate professionals including armed forces
04	Clerks
05	Service workers and shop and market sales workers
06	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers
07	Craft and related trade 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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's primary occupation.

Universe

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

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Concept

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