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2012 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2012
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TZA_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Class of worker (TZ2012A_CLASSWK)

Data file: TZA2012_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 265
End: 266
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">D. Economic activity: All persons aged 5 years and above</span>
<br /><span class="em">[Questions 23-27 were asked of persons aged 5+]</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Economic activity</span></p>

<p>25. Employment status</p>
<div class="i1">In the week preceding the census' night was [the respondent] an...<br /><br />[] Employer <br />[] Employee <br />[] Own account worker non agriculture <br />[] Own account worker agriculture <br />[] Contributing family worker <br />[] An apprentice <br /><br />Write and shade the appropriate code. Codes are in a separate handbook.</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Employer
02 Employee
03 Own account worker, non agriculture
04 Own account worker, agriculture
05 Contributing family worker
06 Apprentices
07 Other not specified
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 class of worker for the person.
Universe
Tanzania 2012: Persons age 5+ who were economically active in the last week [discrepancies: none]

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