2000 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 2000

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MYS_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS

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Occupation - 1 digit (MY2000A_OCC1)

Data file: MYS2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 229

End: 230

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Question C17 - C29 for person aged 10 years and above

[Questions 25-27 were asked of persons who worked for at least one hour during the last 7 days or had a job to return to.]

<svar a="all" v="MY00A425 MY00A426 MY00A427 MY00A428">C25. Occupation (a) What is your occupation? ____ (b) Please describe your duties/ nature of work. ____ (c) In which sector is your occupation? <div class="i1">[] 1 Government [] 2 Private [] 3 Own business</div> </svar>

Categories

Value	Category
00	NIU (not in universe)
01	Legislators, senior officials and managers
02	Professionals
03	Technicians and associate professionals
04	Clerical workers
05	Service workers and shop and market sales workers
06	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers
07	Craft and related trades workers
08	Plant and machine-operators and assemblers
09	Elementary occupations
99	Unknown

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 person's occupation (1 digit).

Universe

Malaysia 2000: Persons age 10+ who worked for at least one hour during the last 7 days, and those not working but had a job to return to [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

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

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