Census of Population of Ireland, 1971 - IPUMS Subset

Ireland, 1971

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IRL_1971_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Statistics Office, IPUMS

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Socio-economic group (IE1971A_SOCECON)

Data file: IRL1971_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 199

End: 200

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar v="IE71A409 IE71A410 IE71A411 IE71A412 IE71A413 IE71A414 IE71A415 IE71A416 IE71A417">[Questions 14-18 are be completed for each person aged 14 years or older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="IE71A416 IE71A417">14. Principal occupation ____<br /><div class="i1">If usually working for payment or profit, even if at present out of work, state here the usual principal occupation, giving a full description. For other persons, write as appropriate: "Home duties", "At school" (primary, secondary or vocational), "Student" (medicine, law etc.), "Not yet at work", etc.</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
00	Farmers, farmers relatives and farm managers
01	Other agricultural occupations and fishermen
02	Higher professional
03	Lower professional
04	Employers and managers
05	Salaried employees
06	Intermediate non-manual workers
07	Other non-manual workers
08	Skilled manual workers
09	Semi-skilled manual workers
10	Unskilled manual workers
11	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 socio-economic group.

Universe

Ireland 1971: All persons

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