2008 National Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Liberia, 2008

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Reference ID

LBR_2008_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS), IPUMS

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Occupation (LR2008A_OCC)

Data file: LBR2008_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 224

End: 225

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h3">Persons 6 years and over</span></p>

<p><span class="em">P22. Occupation</span><div class="i1">What type of work did [the respondent] do?</div>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Legislator, senior official,manager
02	Professional
03	Technician or associate professional
04	Clerk
05	Service worker, shop and market sales worker
06	Skilled agricultural and fishery worker
07	Craft and related trade worker
08	Plant and machine operator and assemler
09	Elementary occupation
10	Armed forces
99	NIU (not in universe)

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.

Universe

Liberia 2008: Persons age 6+ who were working [discrepancies: type I 0.1%; type II none]

concept

Concept

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