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VIII Recenseamento Geral do Brasil. Censo Demográfico de 1970. - IPUMS Subset

Brazil, 1970
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BRA_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, IPUMS
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Occupation last week (BR1970A_OCCWEEK)

Data file: BRA1970_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 226
End: 226
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="BR70A422 BR70A423 BR70A424 BR70A425 BR70A426 BR70A427"><span class="em">Only for people who worked in the 12 months prior to the census date (Sept-1-1969 through Aug-31-1970) or who are seeking work (response 7 in #22)</span><br />[Applies to questions 23 - 28]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="BR70A425"><span class="h3">26. During the last week (August 25-31, 1970), person was :</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 working in primary occupation only<br />[] 2 working in other occupation only<br />[] 3 working in primary occupation and other occupation<br />[] 4 unemployed<br />[] 5 seeking employment for the 1st time</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Only the usual
2 Only another
3 Usual and other
4 Unemployed
5 Looking for 1st job
9 Unknown
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.
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="BR70A425"><span class="h3">Question 26 - In the last week (August 25 to 31, 1970), was exercising:</span><br /><br />(Only for persons age 10 or over who worked during the twelve month period prior to the date of the Census or are looking for work for the 1st time)<br /><br />Record:<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Only usual occupation</span> - for persons who, in the week prior to the date of the Census, exercised only the occupation recorded in Question 23;</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 51]</span><br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Usual occupation and other occupation</span> - for persons who, during the week prior to the date of the Census, exercised some other occupation besides that recorded in Question 23;<br /><span class="em">Other occupation</span> - for those who, during the week prior to the date of the Census, exercised only one occupation different from that recorded for Question 23;<br /><span class="em">Unemployed</span> - for persons who exercised an economic occupation during the twelve month period prior to the date of the Census and were unemployed during the last week;<br /><span class="em">Looking for work for 1st time</span> - for those who never worked and were looking for work on the date of the Census.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the occupation of the person last week.
Universe
Brazil 1970: Persons working or seeking work 12 months prior to census [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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