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Population Housing and Establishment Census 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1996
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EGY_1996_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, Minnesota Population Center
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Industry (ISIC summary) (EG1996A_0414)

Data file: EGY1996-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 160
End: 161
Width: 2
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Persons six years and over
[Questions 8-11 were asked of persons 6 years and over.]




11. Industry ____
Categories
Value Category
1 Agriculture,forestry, hunting and related activities
2 Fishing
3 Mining and quarrying
4 Manufacturing
5 Electricity, water and gas
6 Construction
7 Wholesale, retail trade and repair services
8 Restaurants and hotels
9 Transport, storage and communications
10 Financial intermediation
11 Real estate, renting and business services
12 Public administration, defense and compulsory social security
13 Education
14 Health and social work
15 Other community, social and personal services
16 Private households with employed persons
17 Extra-territorial organizations and bodies
98 Unknown
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.
Interviewer instructions
The main economical activity column No.(11)
For the person less than (6) years write under age

As for the person who is (6) years and over and working, record in this column the type of work that the establishment practicing in which he is working, regardless the nature of his work and his occupation, an electric engineer and working in a cotton spinning company, his economical activity is deemed spinning cotton and the driver who is working in a macaroni factory for example, his economical activity is considered macaroni industry.

The person working outside the establishments, record to him the economical activity that he is practicing, the agriculture worker or the farmer, his economical activity is written "agriculture" and so on.

The economical activity must come in details, and it must be specified and clearly explained
Wholesale groceries trade
Retail seeds trade
Drinks industry
Leather shoes industry
The person whose employment status is seeking for work, record for him the data of the last economical activity that he practices before his unemployment. For those who do not work, write "unemployment"

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the industry (ISIC summary) the person works in.
Universe
Persons age 6+ who are economically active

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Concept
Name Vocabulary
Work: Industry Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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