Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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The lower age cut-off (and perhaps upper age cut-off) at which information is collected will vary from country to country.
Classifies the main job of any individual with a job (EMPLOYED=1) and is missing otherwise. As most surveys collected detailed information and then coded it using national classifications, and the original data is not in the data bases, no attempt has been made to correct or check the original coding.
The variable should generally cover the active sample (employed and unemployed).
Active sample reported as "not stated (code 99)" should normally include employed for whom the occupation was not identified and unemployed if occupation in last job is not reported.
COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Main occupations provided are already aggregated and they are not following the international classification used for harmonization, hence some occupations are grouped and cannot be split (Ex: technicians and professionals are already grouped with clerks in the original data received while the international classification tend always to differentiate between different occupations).
In order not to drop the variable, the provided grouping was used and labels were adjusted for this data set; giving the aggregated categories a composite code of all the codes of actual categories (Ex: professionals, technicians and clerks will be coded 234 aggregating the codes 2, 3 and 4)
