XIII National Population and II Housing Census 1964 - IPUMS Subset
Colombia, 1964
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COL_1964_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), Minnesota Population Center
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- COL1964-H-H
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Occupation (COTA, 4 digits) (CO1964A_0423)
Data file: COL1964-P-H
Overview
Valid:
0
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
135
End:
138
Width:
4
Range:
0 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
19. Occupation or condition of unemployment ____ _
Write the occupation or usual employment of the person. Examples: Farmer, doctor, carpenter, accountant, manual laborer, servant, etc. If the person does not work, write the unemployment condition: renter, pensioner, disabled, elderly, household domestic duties, student, etc. For those who are unemployed, write their last paid occupation.
Write the occupation or usual employment of the person. Examples: Farmer, doctor, carpenter, accountant, manual laborer, servant, etc. If the person does not work, write the unemployment condition: renter, pensioner, disabled, elderly, household domestic duties, student, etc. For those who are unemployed, write their last paid occupation.
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0 | Architect, engineer, and persons in related occupations |
| 1 | Chemist, pharmacist, and persons in related occupations |
| 2 | Agronomist, veterinarian, and persons in related occupations |
| 3 | Doctor, surgeon, and dentist |
| 4 | Paramedic and persons in related occupations |
| 5 | Nurse and midwife |
| 6 | Professor and teacher |
| 7 | Specialist in Mathematics, Social Sciences, and related fields |
| 8 | Lawyer, judge, and persons in related occupations |
| 9 | Artist, writer, entertainer, and persons in related occupations |
| 10 | Cleric and persons related to social welfare |
| 11 | Persons in other occupations related to professionals and technicians |
| 100 | Public administration manager |
| 101 | Executive officer and manager, wholesale and retail trade |
| 102 | Other executive officer, manager, and managing proprietor |
| 200 | Accountant and accounting specialist |
| 201 | Book-keeper, cashier, debt collector, and persons in related occupations |
| 202 | Typist and stenographer |
| 203 | Other office equipment operators |
| 204 | Inspector, dispatcher, and transportation services controller |
| 205 | Postman and messenger |
| 206 | Telephone switchboard operator, telegraph and other telecommunication services operators |
| 207 | Other office clerks and persons in occupations related to transport and communications |
| 208 | Other office clerks and persons in related occupations |
| 300 | Salesman proprietor, wholesale and retail trade |
| 301 | Salesclerk and street vendor |
| 302 | Commercial traveller, manufacturer's agent, and salesman working on commisions, wholesale trade |
| 303 | Other salesmen and persons in related occupations |
| 400 | Farmers, livestock producers, and farm managers |
| 401 | Agricultural and livestock workers, and gardener |
| 402 | Fishermen and persons in related occupations |
| 403 | Hunter, trapper, and persons in related occupations |
| 404 | Forestry and rubber workers, and persons in related occupations |
| 500 | Miners in coal and metal mineral deposits |
| 501 | Mineral treaters and other workers in coal and metal mineral deposits |
| 502 | Quarrymen and persons in related occupations in non-metal mineral solid deposits |
| 503 | Mineral treaters and laborers in quarries and other non-solid mineral deposits |
| 504 | Oil well drillers, other well drillers, laborers in oil wells, and persons in related occupations |
| 600 | Driver |
| 601 | Driver and fireman, railway engine |
| 602 | Deck officer, engineer officer, and pilots, sea and river transport |
| 603 | Deck and engine-room ratings, barge crews and boatmen, sea and river transport |
| 604 | Aircraft pilot, navigator, and flight engineer |
| 605 | Railway brakeman and shunter and persons in other occupations related to transportation |
| 700 | Spinner, weaver, dyer, and persons in related occupations |
| 701 | Tailor, dressmaker, furrier, skinner, and persons in occupations related to production of fabric and leather clothing |
| 702 | Shoemaker, shoe repairers, and persons in occupations related to leather articles production |
| 703 | Carpenter, cabinetmaker, cooper, and persons in related occupations |
| 704 | Bricklayer, glazier, and persons in related occupations |
| 705 | Painter and paperhangers |
| 706 | Plumber, pipe fitter, riveter, and assemblers of iron structures |
| 707 | Electrician, electric cable installer, radio and television repairmen, and persons in related occupations |
| 708 | Mechanic-repairman, machinery and vehicles, machine-tool operator, and persons in related occupations |
| 709 | Mechanic, precision instruments, clocks, jewelry, and persons in related occupations |
| 710 | Stationary-engine and excavating and lifting equipment operators, and persns in related occupations |
| 711 | Compositor, pressman, litographer, engraver, bookbinder, and persons in related occupations |
| 800 | Furnaceman, roller, blacksmith, forgeman, and persons in related occupations |
| 801 | Potter, glass former, glass blower, and other workers in the pottery, glass, and stone industries |
| 802 | Cooker, roaster, miller, batch- and continuous-still operator, and other operators in the chemical industry |
| 803 | Butcher, meat cutter, baker, pastrycook, brewer, and persons in related occupations |
| 804 | Cigar makers and other operators in the tobacco industry |
| 805 | Tanner, fellmonger, pelt dresser, and other operators en in storing and preparing pelts and leather |
| 806 | Operators in the paper making industry |
| 807 | Operators in the production of machinery, electrical, and transportation equipment |
| 809 | Operators in production processes and related occupations, not elsewhere classified |
| 810 | Packer, labeller, and related occupations |
| 811 | Factory operators and persons in related occupations, not elsewhere classified |
| 900 | Construction laborers |
| 901 | Longshoreman, loader, and other transportation laborers |
| 902 | Launderer, presser, dry cleaner, and laborers in related businesses |
| 903 | Other operators, not elsewhere classified |
| 1000 | Workers in protection services |
| 1001 | Cook and other personnel in private house service |
| 1002 | Launderer and presser |
| 1003 | Waiter in restaurants and coffee shops, bartender, and workers in related occupations |
| 1004 | Cook, valet, persons working in pension services, and workers in related occupations, not in private service |
| 1005 | Barber, hairdresser, beautician, and workers in related occupations |
| 1006 | Doorman, janitor, elevator operator, and workers in related occupations |
| 1007 | Athlete, sportsman, and workers in related occupations |
| 1008 | Photographer and workers in related occupations |
| 1009 | Embalmer and undertaker |
| 1010 | Other service workers |
| 1100 | Armed forces |
| 1101 | New workers seeking employment |
| 1102 | Workers not reporting any occupation |
| 1103 | Workers reporting unindetifiable occupations |
| 1104 | Diplomatic and consular personnel, not elsewhere classified |
| 1105 | Persons out of the workforce |
| 9998 | Unknown |
| 9999 | 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
Occupation and condition of unemployment
Column No. 19 - What is your habitual occupation or craft? Occupation is understood as profession, craft or class of job that a person who is working does habitually or what a person who is unemployed did on the census date.
One should write down in this column of the form:
a) The habitual occupation of persons who are working on the census date.
b) The habitual occupation of persons who are found without work on the census date.
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c) The condition of persons who do not work because of being of being under age, elderly or invalids, rentiers, pensioned, or who do domestic duties without remuneration, etc.
Habitual occupation. - The habitual occupation of a person, that is, the occupation to which the most time is dedicated should be written down. When a person has many occupations and it is hard for them to know in which the most time is spent, the occupation that produces the greatest incomes should be written down.
In this column, the complete name of the occupation should be written down in a manner that clearly indicates the class or craft or task that is done. In many occupations it is necessary to employ more than one word to be able to describe them correctly, like "wholesale storekeeper", "engineer of mines", "automobile greaser", "retail storekeeper", "upholsterer of furniture", etc., single names like "storekeeper", "engineer", "greaser", "upholsterer", etc indicate nothing respective of the specific occupation. Equally, generic names should not be employed like "manual laborer", "white collar worker", "industrial", etc., since they also do not correctly define the occupation correctly. In some occupations like those of accountant, typist, superintendent, etc., this single name describes the craft or task correctly and therefore can be written down without other specification.
The habitual occupation also should be registered for persons interned temporarily in hospitals, clinics, as also those who are found detained for police reasons.
Occupation of family helpers. - For members of a family (spouse, children relatives) who collaborate in the economic company of the Head of the family or other relative during a time less than two days a week, 10 days a month or 4 months a year, without pay or fixed daily wages, they should be written down as the same occupation as the Head of family or the relative who they help.
Food, in these cases, should not be considered remuneration.
Secondary remunerated occupations: For students, housewives and the rest of persons whose principal activity is not remunerated but who at the same time has a secondary occupation that permits them some monetary income, this last occupation should be registered even though they only do it on some days or some hours a day.
Agricultural occupations. - The following occupations should be distinguished as agricultural occupations:
Farmer: The person who directs the planting and collection of crops, either on private property or for a third party company without depending on other persons.
Also family helpers who work on the farm of the Head of family or relative are farmers, without pay or fixed daily wage and during a time not shorter than two days a week, 10 days a month or 4 months a year.
Administrator of a farm: A person who directs jobs of an agricultural or livestock farm, and for it receives remuneration from the corresponding owner or from the manager of the farm.
[p. 22]
Foreman of the farm: A person who directs a group of agricultural manual laborers, controls their jobs and for this receives remuneration.
Agricultural manual laborer: A person who works as a worker in a farm for a daily wages in money, products or both.
The rest of the occupations of persons who work in farms as helpers in the agricultural labors should be registered as their specific names, such as: Agronomist Engineer, Farm Pilot, Tractor driver, and the same with the personnel of administration and services: Mechanic, Accountant, Inspector, Typist, Servant, etc.
Are you looking for work for the first time?
The cases of persons who on the census date because of not having worked before are found looking for work for the first time should be written down. The annotation will be made in the same column 19, as: "B. T. X. 1a vez"
Condition of inactivity. - For a persons who do not work due to conditions of age, health or are dedicating their time to study in education centers, domestic duties, or those who live on investments or pensions and do not have a remunerated occupation, the condition of inactivity that corresponds to them, in accordance with the following names should be registered:
Home: Women who without having a remunerated occupation do domestic duties.
Minor: A person younger than 14 years who does not study and does not have an occupation.
Student: A person who studies in an education establishment and does not have a remunerated occupation.
Elderly person: A person who cannot work because of age.
Invalid: A person who cannot carry out a job because of a physical incapacity.
Rentier: A person without remunerated occupation who lives from the product of investments or stocks.
Pensioned: A person without remunerated occupation who lives on a pension supplied by official and private entities.
Interned: A person who resides and is attended in a social institution of health, like mental hospitals, sanitariums, old peoples home, hospices, etc.
Imprisoned: A resident in jails where they complete a sentence. They should not be confused with a simple detainee.
Religious person: Persons of both sexes who live in convents.
For persons who are found in collective residences (barracks, convents, hospitals, boarding schools, etc.) the habitual occupation, grade, title or condition should be registered, for example: administrator, superintendent, servant, lieutenant, sergeant, corporal, soldier, student, priest, etc.
Persons who do not work should not be confused with those who having worked in some part of the census year, are found without a job or employment on the official day of the census. Equally, these last persons also should not be confused with those looking for a job for the first time, such as persons who finished their studies and are looking for work.
Column No. 19 - What is your habitual occupation or craft? Occupation is understood as profession, craft or class of job that a person who is working does habitually or what a person who is unemployed did on the census date.
One should write down in this column of the form:
a) The habitual occupation of persons who are working on the census date.
b) The habitual occupation of persons who are found without work on the census date.
[p. 21]
c) The condition of persons who do not work because of being of being under age, elderly or invalids, rentiers, pensioned, or who do domestic duties without remuneration, etc.
Habitual occupation. - The habitual occupation of a person, that is, the occupation to which the most time is dedicated should be written down. When a person has many occupations and it is hard for them to know in which the most time is spent, the occupation that produces the greatest incomes should be written down.
In this column, the complete name of the occupation should be written down in a manner that clearly indicates the class or craft or task that is done. In many occupations it is necessary to employ more than one word to be able to describe them correctly, like "wholesale storekeeper", "engineer of mines", "automobile greaser", "retail storekeeper", "upholsterer of furniture", etc., single names like "storekeeper", "engineer", "greaser", "upholsterer", etc indicate nothing respective of the specific occupation. Equally, generic names should not be employed like "manual laborer", "white collar worker", "industrial", etc., since they also do not correctly define the occupation correctly. In some occupations like those of accountant, typist, superintendent, etc., this single name describes the craft or task correctly and therefore can be written down without other specification.
The habitual occupation also should be registered for persons interned temporarily in hospitals, clinics, as also those who are found detained for police reasons.
Occupation of family helpers. - For members of a family (spouse, children relatives) who collaborate in the economic company of the Head of the family or other relative during a time less than two days a week, 10 days a month or 4 months a year, without pay or fixed daily wages, they should be written down as the same occupation as the Head of family or the relative who they help.
Food, in these cases, should not be considered remuneration.
Secondary remunerated occupations: For students, housewives and the rest of persons whose principal activity is not remunerated but who at the same time has a secondary occupation that permits them some monetary income, this last occupation should be registered even though they only do it on some days or some hours a day.
Agricultural occupations. - The following occupations should be distinguished as agricultural occupations:
Farmer: The person who directs the planting and collection of crops, either on private property or for a third party company without depending on other persons.
Also family helpers who work on the farm of the Head of family or relative are farmers, without pay or fixed daily wage and during a time not shorter than two days a week, 10 days a month or 4 months a year.
Administrator of a farm: A person who directs jobs of an agricultural or livestock farm, and for it receives remuneration from the corresponding owner or from the manager of the farm.
[p. 22]
Foreman of the farm: A person who directs a group of agricultural manual laborers, controls their jobs and for this receives remuneration.
Agricultural manual laborer: A person who works as a worker in a farm for a daily wages in money, products or both.
The rest of the occupations of persons who work in farms as helpers in the agricultural labors should be registered as their specific names, such as: Agronomist Engineer, Farm Pilot, Tractor driver, and the same with the personnel of administration and services: Mechanic, Accountant, Inspector, Typist, Servant, etc.
Are you looking for work for the first time?
The cases of persons who on the census date because of not having worked before are found looking for work for the first time should be written down. The annotation will be made in the same column 19, as: "B. T. X. 1a vez"
Condition of inactivity. - For a persons who do not work due to conditions of age, health or are dedicating their time to study in education centers, domestic duties, or those who live on investments or pensions and do not have a remunerated occupation, the condition of inactivity that corresponds to them, in accordance with the following names should be registered:
Home: Women who without having a remunerated occupation do domestic duties.
Minor: A person younger than 14 years who does not study and does not have an occupation.
Student: A person who studies in an education establishment and does not have a remunerated occupation.
Elderly person: A person who cannot work because of age.
Invalid: A person who cannot carry out a job because of a physical incapacity.
Rentier: A person without remunerated occupation who lives from the product of investments or stocks.
Pensioned: A person without remunerated occupation who lives on a pension supplied by official and private entities.
Interned: A person who resides and is attended in a social institution of health, like mental hospitals, sanitariums, old peoples home, hospices, etc.
Imprisoned: A resident in jails where they complete a sentence. They should not be confused with a simple detainee.
Religious person: Persons of both sexes who live in convents.
For persons who are found in collective residences (barracks, convents, hospitals, boarding schools, etc.) the habitual occupation, grade, title or condition should be registered, for example: administrator, superintendent, servant, lieutenant, sergeant, corporal, soldier, student, priest, etc.
Persons who do not work should not be confused with those who having worked in some part of the census year, are found without a job or employment on the official day of the census. Equally, these last persons also should not be confused with those looking for a job for the first time, such as persons who finished their studies and are looking for work.
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the occupation of worker, using the occupational classification for the Census of the Americas (COTA-1960).
Universe
Persons age 12+ who were working or are unemployed but worked before
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |