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Second General Census of Population and Housing 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1987
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CMR_1987_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Ministère du Plan et de l'Amenagement du Territoire, Minnesota Population Center
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Economic activity (CM1987A_0417)

Data file: CMR1987-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 174
End: 175
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Population of 6 years and older (born before April 1981)
[Questions 19-22 were asked of persons 6 years old or more.]




P19. Economic activity ____

During the week from ... to ... what was [the respondent] doing most of the time? Put the appropriate abbreviation according to the instructions at the bottom of the page.
Categories
Value Category
0 Working
1 Unemployed, lost his/her job
2 Looking for work for the first time
3 House-keeper
4 Student
5 Annuitant
6 Retired, old person
7 Handicapped
8 Loafer
9 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.
Interviewer instructions
Columns P19 to P22: Population of 6 years and older (born before April 1981)

These columns concern only persons who are 6 or- more years old, in other words persons born before April 1981.
For all children who are less than six years old, put a dash in columns P19, P20, P21 and P22.
For all persons who are six or more years old, you should determine their economic activity during the reference week -that preceding the interview in the household.




Column 19: Situation of activity

You should record in this column what the person did during the reference week; write one of the following abbreviations as the case may be:
WK: all persons who worked for themselves,

- all persons who worked for any remuneration (wages, salary, pay in kind, etc.)
- all persons who worked for the family under the supervision of the family head, with or without remuneration.(Example: a child who tended his parent's flock)
- all women who, in addition to doing housework, worked either with an employer, for themselves of for their family (Example: farmer, seamstress, worker, sales woman)

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the economic activity for each person aged 6 or more from private households.
Universe
Persons age 6+ from private households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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