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VIII General Population and Housing Census, 1960 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 1960
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MEX_1960_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Dirección General de Estadística, Secretaría de Industria y Comercio, IPUMS
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Class of worker (MX1960A_CLASSWK)

Data file: MEX1960_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 170
End: 170
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="MX60A421"><span class="h3">Work status</span><br /><br />[] 34. Laborer<br />[] 35. Employee of any category<br />[] 36. Boss, businessman, employer<br />[] 37. Own worker<br />[] 38. Unpaid family worker<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="MX60A421">Columns 34, 35, 36, 37, and 38: If the person is a laborer, for example, cowboy, mechanic, driver, etc, you should make an X in column 34. If the person is an employee, for example, a typist, retail worker, archivist, etc., you should make an X in column 35. If the person is the owner of a store, factory, farm, etc, which means that he/she employees workers, laborers, or both, this means that he/she is the employer and you should make an X in column 36. When the person does not employee any workers, nor work for someone else, he/she is a self-employed or 'own worker' and you should make an X in the column 37. For example, land owner (ejido), traveling salesperson, shoe repair worker, etc. In column 38, only make an X when the person provides work or services without payment, which means that he/she does not receive any pay, salary, etc. for helping the head of household in the business or work that he/she does. For example, the child of the owner of an<span class="lang"> ejido </span>that helps his father with the work in the business.<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Laborer/blue-collar worker
2 Rural laborer
3 Professional/white-collar employee in any category
4 Owner
5 Own-account farmer in a common land
6 Own-account farmer
7 Own-account others
8 Unpaid family worker
9 No category indicated
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 main position at work from which he obtains most of his income.
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Mexico 1960: All persons

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