Palestinian Population, Housing, and Establishment Census, 2017 - IPUMS Subset

West Bank and Gaza, 2017

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Reference ID

WBG_2017_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

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Occupation (PS2017A_OCC)

Data file: PSE2017_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 175

End: 176

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h3">For employed persons and unemployed ones who ever worked (who answers items (1--5) of question 74, and if the answers (6--12) go to question 83</span>
<br />[Questions 79 through 82 asked of persons aged 7 or older who were employed or unemployed as indicated in questions 74 responses 1 through 5.]</p>

<p><span class="em">76. Main occupation current/previous (detailed type of employee work)</span><div class="i1">____ Occupation<br />____ Code</div>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Legislators and managers
02	Professionals
03	Technicians and associate professionals
04	Clerks
05	Services and sales workers
06	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers
07	Crafts and related workers
08	Plant, 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 main occupation, either current or pervious, in the week before the census.

Universe

Palestine 2017: Persons age 7+ who ever worked [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

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