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Recensement General de la Population et du Logement 1982 - IPUMS Subset

Haiti, 1982
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HTI_1982_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Département du Plan, Institute Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique, IPUMS
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Main occupation (HT1982A_OCC2)

Data file: HTI1982_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 222
End: 222
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="HT82A416 HT82A417 HT82A418 HT82A419 HT82A420 HT82A421 HT82A422"><span class="h3">D. Economic characteristics</span><br />For persons 10 years and older.<br />[Questions 17-21 were asked of persons 10 years of age and older.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="HT82A418 HT82A419"><span class="em">19. Principal occupation: What type of work does this person do? </span><br /><div class="i1">(Profession, trade, job) ________</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 Physical scientist, architect, pilot, doctor
1 Accountant, lawyer, professor, clergy
2 Director and upper-level administrator
3 Administrative
4 Business personnel and salespeople
5 Services
6 Farmer, forestry, fisherman
7 Non-farm workers
8 Unknown
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="HT82A416 HT82A417 HT82A418 HT82A419 HT82A420 HT82A421 HT82A422"><span class="em">D) Economic characteristics</span><br />[Questions 17-21.]<br />Ask questions relative to the economic characteristics of people age 10 years old or more.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="HT82A418 HT82A419">Question 19: Main occupation or profession<br />80. For the census, the profession refers to the type of work carried out by a person during the period of reference on which the data related to the economic characteristics are written down, no matter what the branch of economic activity or situation of the person in question in the profession.<br />For a person who has two or more professions it will be necessary to consider the profession in which he spends most of his time.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's main occupation (one-digit code).
Universe
Haiti 1982: Persons age 10+ who worked or had a job during the past 12 months [discrepancies: type I 0.4%; type II 0.5%]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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