Palestinian Population, Housing, and Establishment Census, 2007 - IPUMS Subset

West Bank and Gaza, 2007

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Reference ID

WBG_2007_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

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Main occupation (PS2007A_OCC)

Data file: PSE2007_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 162

End: 163

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar v="PS07A418 PS07A419 PS07A420 PS07A421 PS07A422">For employed individuals and unemployed ones where were employed in the past week (who answered 1 to 5 in question 73; put (-) for those who answered 6-12<br />[Questions 74-78 were asked of persons age 7 or older who have ever worked, as per question 73]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PS07A418">74. Main occupation (detailed type of employee work)<br /><div class="i1">Profession ________<br />Code _ _ _</div><br /></svar>

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.

Universe

Palestine 2007: Persons age 7+ who were employed or experienced unemployed, except those in Jerusalem annexed by Israel in 1967 [discrepancies: not verifiable]

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