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XIII National Population and II Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1964
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COL_1964_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS
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Class of worker (CO1964A_CLASSWKR)

Data file: COL1964_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 161
End: 161
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CO64A422"><span class="em">21. Work category.</span> ____ _<br /><div class="i1">Write according as applicable:</div><br /><div class="i2">Owner: When the person pays employees or workers out of his own funds.<br />Own-Account worker: When the person works for himself/herself without employees or workers.<br />Family helper: When he/she helps the head of family or a relative [with] payment.<br />Professional/white collar worker: When the work involves office work, control, or security.<br />Manual laborer/blue collar worker: When the work is manual.</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Owner
2 Own-account worker
3 Family helper
4 Professional/white collar worker
5 Manual laborer/blue collar worker
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the class of worker.
Universe
Colombia 1964: Persons age 12+ who were working [discrepancies: none]

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