1996 Population Census - IPUMS Subset
Fiji, 1996
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FJI_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Fiji Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
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- FJI1996_PHC-H-H.dat
- FJI1996_PHC-P-H.dat
Major industry (FJ1996A_IND)
Data file: FJI1996_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
245
End:
246
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar v="FJ96A422 FJ96A423 FJ96A424 FJ96A425 FJ96A426 FJ96A427 FJ96A428 FJ96A429 FJ96A030 FJ96A031 FJ96A432"><span class="h3">For all persons born in 1981 or before</span><br />[Questions D14-D17 were asked of persons born in 1981 or before.]<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="FJ96A431">D16. Industry<br />State activities, services, product of your place of work. Who does the person work for? Section if large company or government department<br />______<br /><br />If self-employed, what is person's trade or business?<br /></svar>
<p><svar a="all" v="FJ96A431">D16. Industry<br />State activities, services, product of your place of work. Who does the person work for? Section if large company or government department<br />______<br /><br />If self-employed, what is person's trade or business?<br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 01 | Agriculture, forestry and fishering |
| 02 | Mining and quarrying |
| 03 | Manufacturing |
| 04 | Electricity, gas and water |
| 05 | Construction |
| 06 | Trade |
| 07 | Transportation and communications |
| 08 | Finance and insurance |
| 09 | Other services |
| 98 | 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
<svar v="FJ96A422 FJ96A423 FJ96A424 FJ96A425 FJ96A426 FJ96A427 FJ96A428 FJ96A429 FJ96A430 FJ96A431 FJ96A432"><span class="h3">Economic activity last week</span><br /><br /><span class="em">For all persons born in 1981 or before</span><br />138. The next set of questions, D14 to D17, apply to all persons born in 1981 or before. Look back at the year of birth you have entered for each person. For those born 1982-1996 write 'N/A' for question D14[a] and leave the rest of the column [D14-D17] blank.<br /><br />139. Questions D14-D17 are concerned with how people provide for themselves, how they make their living. It is restricted to persons 15 years of age and over.<br /><br />140. In the week before census night, almost everyone in Fiji will have done something to provide for himself or herself. It is your job to discover and record what each person did.<br /><br />141. Ask the questions as they are set out here and on the questionnaire and talk about each member of the household until you understand what he or she did in the way of making a living last week. Make entries on the questionnaire only when you have the picture clear in your mind.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FJ96A422" v="FJ96A422 FJ96A423 FJ96A424 FJ96A425 FJ96A426 FJ96A427 FJ96A428 FJ96A429 FJ96A430 FJ96A431 FJ96A432">Question D14 - Type of activity last week<br /><br />142. Question 14[a]<br />Ask,<br />Did this person do any work for money last week?<br /><br /><div class="i1">Money work here means:<br />A wage and salary job.<br />Business, shop, taxi/carrier business, repair shop<br />Grow things for sale<br />Raise animals for sale<br />Catch fish, collect shells for sale</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p.26]</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">Provide services for money</div><br /><br />You should write 'M' against money work. Include also persons who had a job but were either sick or on leave or did not attend work for some other reason.<br /><br />For persons who did not work for money last week write 'NO' in this box.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar v="FJ96A422 FJ96A423 FJ96A424 FJ96A425 FJ96A426 FJ96A427 FJ96A428 FJ96A429 FJ96A430 FJ96A431 FJ96A432">145. For those persons responding with 'M' in D14[a], you should also complete<br /><br /><div class="i1">D14[b] Number of days worked last week.<br />D14[c] Did the person do any subsistence work as well<br />D15 Describe the task performed last week.<br />D16 The type of activity, service or product produced at place of work.<br />D17 How was the person paid</div><br /><div class="i2">weekly wages<br />fortnightly/monthly salary<br />by sale of crops, livestock<br />for job done<br />unpaid family worker</div><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="FJ96A430 FJ96A431">Question D16 - Industry<br /><br />156. You have described the person's own job, which is his occupation. We have next to consider the kind of business, product or service produced by the worker and his/her fellow workers. For example, a person may be a typist working for<br /><br /><div class="i1">a mining company<br />in a building contractors office<br />in a hotel<br />for a bus company<br />in a department store<br />for the government</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p.34]</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">for a firm of lawyers.</div><br /><br />The person's occupation is 'typist' but the product, business or service is different in each case.<br /><br />157. Ask,<br />'Who does this person work for?'<br />or 'Where does this person work?'<br /><br /><div class="i1">Enter the name of the company, firm or organization for which he or she works.<br /><br />Some large companies make, produce or sell more than one kind of product and the same is true of large departments of government. In such cases state the branch or section for which the person works.</div><br /><br />For example, a large company like Carpenters engages in many kinds of activity and you should distinguish the branch for which the person works by writing - 'Carpenters Shipping', - Carpenters Travel', - or as the case may be.<br /><br />Similarly, large government departments such as the PWD engage in different kinds of work and you should distinguish this by writing - 'PWD roads', - 'PWD mechanical workshops', 'PWD Water' or -as the case may be, but not just 'PWD'.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p.35]</span><br /><br />158. If the person is self-employed, or works in a family business.<br />Ask,<br />'What is this person's trade or business?'<br /><br />159. Write in two or three words what kind of business or activity is carried on:<br /><br /><div class="i1">what is made or produced<br />what services are provided<br />what goods are sold<br />what crops are grown.</div><br /><br />160. Be precise. Avoid vague answers.<br />For example:<br /><br />Good Answers--Bad Answers<br /><div class="i1">'shoe repair'--'repair'<br />'making furniture'--'factory'<br />'bus company'--'business'<br />'retail store'--'private enterprise'<br />'car repairs'--'self-employed'</div><br /><br />We must know what is repaired, what the factory makes, what kind of business, what sort of private enterprise, what the self-employed person makes or sells.<br /></svar>
<p><svar a="FJ96A422" v="FJ96A422 FJ96A423 FJ96A424 FJ96A425 FJ96A426 FJ96A427 FJ96A428 FJ96A429 FJ96A430 FJ96A431 FJ96A432">Question D14 - Type of activity last week<br /><br />142. Question 14[a]<br />Ask,<br />Did this person do any work for money last week?<br /><br /><div class="i1">Money work here means:<br />A wage and salary job.<br />Business, shop, taxi/carrier business, repair shop<br />Grow things for sale<br />Raise animals for sale<br />Catch fish, collect shells for sale</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p.26]</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">Provide services for money</div><br /><br />You should write 'M' against money work. Include also persons who had a job but were either sick or on leave or did not attend work for some other reason.<br /><br />For persons who did not work for money last week write 'NO' in this box.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar v="FJ96A422 FJ96A423 FJ96A424 FJ96A425 FJ96A426 FJ96A427 FJ96A428 FJ96A429 FJ96A430 FJ96A431 FJ96A432">145. For those persons responding with 'M' in D14[a], you should also complete<br /><br /><div class="i1">D14[b] Number of days worked last week.<br />D14[c] Did the person do any subsistence work as well<br />D15 Describe the task performed last week.<br />D16 The type of activity, service or product produced at place of work.<br />D17 How was the person paid</div><br /><div class="i2">weekly wages<br />fortnightly/monthly salary<br />by sale of crops, livestock<br />for job done<br />unpaid family worker</div><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="FJ96A430 FJ96A431">Question D16 - Industry<br /><br />156. You have described the person's own job, which is his occupation. We have next to consider the kind of business, product or service produced by the worker and his/her fellow workers. For example, a person may be a typist working for<br /><br /><div class="i1">a mining company<br />in a building contractors office<br />in a hotel<br />for a bus company<br />in a department store<br />for the government</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p.34]</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">for a firm of lawyers.</div><br /><br />The person's occupation is 'typist' but the product, business or service is different in each case.<br /><br />157. Ask,<br />'Who does this person work for?'<br />or 'Where does this person work?'<br /><br /><div class="i1">Enter the name of the company, firm or organization for which he or she works.<br /><br />Some large companies make, produce or sell more than one kind of product and the same is true of large departments of government. In such cases state the branch or section for which the person works.</div><br /><br />For example, a large company like Carpenters engages in many kinds of activity and you should distinguish the branch for which the person works by writing - 'Carpenters Shipping', - Carpenters Travel', - or as the case may be.<br /><br />Similarly, large government departments such as the PWD engage in different kinds of work and you should distinguish this by writing - 'PWD roads', - 'PWD mechanical workshops', 'PWD Water' or -as the case may be, but not just 'PWD'.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p.35]</span><br /><br />158. If the person is self-employed, or works in a family business.<br />Ask,<br />'What is this person's trade or business?'<br /><br />159. Write in two or three words what kind of business or activity is carried on:<br /><br /><div class="i1">what is made or produced<br />what services are provided<br />what goods are sold<br />what crops are grown.</div><br /><br />160. Be precise. Avoid vague answers.<br />For example:<br /><br />Good Answers--Bad Answers<br /><div class="i1">'shoe repair'--'repair'<br />'making furniture'--'factory'<br />'bus company'--'business'<br />'retail store'--'private enterprise'<br />'car repairs'--'self-employed'</div><br /><br />We must know what is repaired, what the factory makes, what kind of business, what sort of private enterprise, what the self-employed person makes or sells.<br /></svar>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the industry in which the person works.
Universe
Fiji 1996: Persons born in 1981 or earlier who work for money [discrepancies: type I none; type II 0.1%]
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work: Industry Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |