Census of Population of Ireland, 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Ireland, 1996

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IRL_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Statistics Office, IPUMS

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Socio-economic group (SEG) (IE1996A_SOCECON)

Data file: IRL1996_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 220

End: 221

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
01	Employers and managers
02	Higher professional
03	Lower professional
04	Non-manual
05	Manual skilled
06	Semi-skilled
07	Unskilled
08	Own account workers
09	Farmers
10	Agricultural workers
11	All others gainfully occupied and 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 (SEG), which is based on the person's current occupation, previous occupation or occupation of a family supporter.

Universe

Ireland 1996: All persons

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