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Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005
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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS
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Class of worker (CM2005A_CLASSWK)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 318
End: 318
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="CM05A503 CM05A504 CM05A505 CM05A506 CM05A507 CM05A508 CM05A509"><span class="h3">Economic activity for persons aged 6 years and above</span><br />[Questions 27 to 33 were asked of persons aged 6 years and older.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CM05A505">29. In the main job held last week, was the person...?<br /><div class="i1">[Question 29 was asked of persons aged 6 years and older who reported working in the last 7 days, per Question 28.]</div><br /><div class="i1">[] A permanent wage (salary earner)<br />[] A temporary wage (salary earner)<br />[] An employer<br />[] An independent, self-employed worker<br />[] A family helper <br />[] A wage-earning apprentice<br />[] A non-wage-earning apprentice</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Permanent salary earner
2 Temporary salary earner
3 Employer
4 Independent or self-employed worker
5 Family helper
6 Wage-earning apprentice
7 Non-wage-earning apprentice
9 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
<svar v="CM05A503 CM05A504 CM05A505 CM05A506 CM05A507 CM05A508 CM05A509"><span class="h2">Questions (Questions 27-33) related to the economic activity are only ask to people 6 years old and older</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CM05A505"><span class="em">29. Employment status</span><br />The status of employment, which is related to the worker's situation related to his colleagues (if he has any) in the company, is a way of categorizing the engaged active population.<br /><br />The codes of the terms of employment status are:<br /><span class="em">1-Permanent salaried: </span>This is a person who works for a public or private employer and who receives regular compensation in kind or in cash.<br /><span class="em">2-Temporary salaried: </span>This is a person who works intermittently for a public or private employers and who receives compensation in cash or in kind.<br /><span class="em">3-An employer </span>is a person who has his own economic enterprise and who a salaried labor force<br /><span class="em">4-Independent-</span>This is a person who works for himself and doesn't use any salaried labor force. He can use several uncompensated family helpers or apprentices<br /><span class="em">5-Family helper</span>-This is a person who works in a family business without compensation<br /><span class="em">6-Compensated apprentice-</span>This is a person who is learning a trade and who recipes compensation in cash or in kind.<br /><span class="em">7-Uncompensated apprentice</span>-This is a person who is learning a trade and who does not receive any type of compensation<br /><br /><div class="i1">Q29: What is/was the employment status of ________ in his job/his last job?<br />-Mark in the proper space the code for the employment status of the surveyed person.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates a person's worker class.
Universe
Cameroon 2005: Residents of the household who are working or have worked in the past [discrepancies: type I 0.1%, type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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