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1960 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1960
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USA_1960_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Class of worker (US1960A_CLASSWKR)

Data file: USA1960_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 259
End: 260
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="US60A445 US60A446 US60A447 US60A448 US60A451 US60A452 US60A453 US60A457 US60A459 US60A475 US60A476 US60A484 US60A451 US60A455 US60A464"><span class="em">P21. When was this person born? </span><br /><br /><div class="i1">[] Born before April 1946</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">Please go on with questions P22 to P35. Answer the questions regardless of whether the person is a housewife, student, or retired person, or a part-time or full-time worker.</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">[] Born April 1946 or later</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">Please omit questions P22 to P35 and turn the page to the next person.<br />Space for any notes about the entries for this person.</div><br /><br /><div class="i3">_____</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="US60A447 US60A448 US60A451 US60A452 US60A453"><span class="em">P27. Occupation </span> (Answer 1, 2, or 3) <br /><br /><div class="i1">[] 1. This person <span class="em">last</span> worked in 1949 or earlier.<br />This person has never worked.<br /><br /><span class="em">or </span><br /><br />[] 2. On active duty in the Armed Forces now <br /><br /><span class="em">or</span> <br /><br />[] 3. Worked in 1950 or later (Answer a to e, below.)</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">Describe this person's job or business last week, if any, and write in name of employer. If this person had no job or business last week, give information for last job or business since 1950.</div><br /><br /><div class="i3"><span class="em">a. For whom did he work? </span><br /><br />_____<br />(Name of company, business, organization, or other employer) <br /><br /><span class="em">b. What kind of business or industry was this? </span><br />Describe activity at location where employed. <br /><br />_____<br />(For example: County junior high school, auto assembly plant, TV and radio service, retail supermarket, road construction, farm) <br /><br /><span class="em">c. Is this primarily: </span><br /><br />[] Manufacturing<br />[] Wholesale trade <br />[] Retail trade <br />[] Other (services, agriculture, government, construction, etc.) <br /><br /><span class="em">d. What kind of work was he doing? </span><br /><br />_____<br />(For example: 8th grade English teacher, paint sprayer, repairs TV sets, grocery checker, civil engineer, farmer, farm hand) <br /><br /><span class="em">e. Was this person: (Check one box) </span><br /><br />[] Employee of private company, business, or individual, for wages, salary, or commissions <br />[] Government employee (Federal, State, county, or local)<br />[] Self-employed in own business, professional practice, or farm <br />[] Working without pay in a family business or farm</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
00 NIU (not in universe)
10 Self-employed
22 Wage/salary, private
24 Wage/salary, government
29 Unpaid family worker
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 whether respondents worked for their own enterprise(s) or for someone else as employees. Workers with multiple sources of employment were classified according to the work relationship in which they spent the most time during the reference day or week.
Universe
United States 1960: Persons age 14+ who had worked within the past 10 years [not verifiable]

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