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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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Sector of employment (CM2005A_EMPSECT)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 323
End: 323
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="CM05A508">32. Sector of employment _<br /><div class="i1">[Question 32 was asked of persons aged 6 years and older who reported working in the last 7 days, per Question 28.]</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Modern
2 Informal artisanal production
3 Informal public works and buildings
4 Informal mechanics and repairs
5 Informal communication and transportation
6 Informal small business and product manufacturing
7 Informal food-selling and catering
8 Informal personal services
9 Traditional activities, such as agriculture, hunting, fishing and foraging
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="CM05A508"><span class="em">32. Employment sector</span><br />This is regarding the part of the economy where the job is performed, meaning formal or informal. In the formal sector, the management is characterized by the record keeping, having some type of taxpayers/ratepayers, etc employed. It groups together, aside from public administrations (public services), public and semipublic businesses, private businesses, jobs in international organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGO), scholarly establishments?It is about employments in structured businesses.<br /><br />The informal sector groups together activities lead by businesses and production units, individual or familial in nature in the artisanal, small business, manufacturing, or small service sectors.<br /><br />[Example omitted]<br /><br />NB. The informal sector does not include agriculture, breeding, fishing, hunting or harvesting. To collect the data on this variable, the following terms have been retained:<br /><br />1 = Modern sector<br />2 = Informal sector of artisanal production<br />3 = Informal sector of public building and works<br />4 = Informal mechanical and repairs sector<br />5 = Informal sector of communication and transportation<br />6 = Informal sector of small businesses of manufactured products<br />7 = Informal sector of commodity food sales and catering<br />8 = Informal sector of personal services<br />9 = Traditional types of activities of agriculture, breeding, hunting, fishing, and forest<br /><br /><div class="i1">-Ask the person to succinctly describe the nature of the work as well as the location of the business or the establishment where he works or worked<br />-Determine the employment sector based on this response obtained<br />-Mark in the space reserved the code of the employment sector</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates a person's sector of employment.
Universe
Cameroon 2005: Residents of the household who are working or have worked in the past [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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