Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset
Ghana, 1988
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- Data files
- GHA1988-B.dat
- GHA1988-C.dat
- GHA1988-W.dat
Woman's occupation before marriage (W_WKPREMARJOB)
Data file: GHA1988-W.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
331
End:
332
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
727. What was your occupation, that is, what kind of work did you do?
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Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 10 | Did not work |
| 20 | Professional, technical, management |
| 30 | Clerical or sales |
| 31 | Clerical |
| 32 | Sales |
| 40 | Agricultural |
| 41 | Self-employed agriculture |
| 42 | Agriculture employee |
| 50 | Household, domestic, and services |
| 51 | Household and domestic |
| 52 | Services |
| 60 | Skilled and unskilled manual |
| 61 | Skill manual labor |
| 62 | Unskilled manual labor |
| 97 | Don't know |
| 98 | Missing |
| 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
For women who worked before their first marriage, WKPREMARJOB reports their occupational sector before marriage.
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work Variables -- TOPICS | IPUMS |