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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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Principal occupation, 1 digit (MX1960A_OCC1)

Data file: MEX1960_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 160
End: 161
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="MX60A414 MX60A415 MX60A416 MX60A418 MX60A419 MX60A420 MX60A434 MX60A435"><span class="h3">Principal occupation</span><br /><br />[] 31. Own account land owner [<span class="lang">Ejidatario</span>]<br /><br />[] 32. Rural laborer<br /><br />33. Write the principal occupation of the person. For example: farmer, cowboy, carpenter, well digger, retail worker, driver, professor, doctor, typist, etc.<br /><div class="i1">____</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
00 Professions, technicians, and similar workers
01 Managers, administrators and directive officials, except in agriculture
02 Office workers and similar workers
03 Salesmen and similar
04 Farmers, ranchers, lumber workers, fishermen, hunters and similar workers
05 Workers in metal and non-metal mines, in petroleum and natural gas wells, and in quarries, salt mines, etc.
06 Artisans and workers directly involved in production processes and conductors in the transportation industry
07 Artisans and workers directly involved in production processes and conductors in the transportation industry
08 Manual laborers in occupations not directly related to production
09 Service workers and similar
99 No occupation reported
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.

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Definition
This variable indicates principal occupation, 1 digit.
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Mexico 1960: All persons

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