World Values Survey 2006, Wave 5
United States, 2006
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Profession/job (V242)
Data file: WV5_Data_United_States_2006_Spss_v20180912
Overview
Valid:
675
Invalid:
574
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
14
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
684
End:
685
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 14
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
V242. In which profession/occupation are you doing most of your work? If you do not work currently, characterize your major work in the past! What is/was your job there?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Employer/ manager of establishment with 10 or more employees | 77 |
11.4%
|
| 2 | Employer/ manager of establishment with less than 10 employe | 33 |
4.9%
|
| 3 | Professional worker lawyer, accountant, teacher, etc | 158 |
23.4%
|
| 4 | Supervisory - office worker: supervises others | 46 |
6.8%
|
| 5 | Non-manual - office worker: non-supervisor | 68 |
10.1%
|
| 6 | Foreman and supervisor | 21 |
3.1%
|
| 7 | skilled manual worker | 107 |
15.9%
|
| 8 | semi-skilled manual worker | 21 |
3.1%
|
| 9 | unskilled manual worker | 15 |
2.2%
|
| 10 | Farmer: has own farm | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 11 | agricultural worker | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 12 | Member of armed forces, security personnel | 6 |
0.9%
|
| 13 | Never had a job | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 14 | Other (cs) | 116 |
17.2%
|
| -5 | Missing; Not asked by the interviewer | 25 | |
| -4 | Not asked | 0 | |
| -3 | Not applicable | 539 | |
| -2 | No answer | 10 | |
| -1 | Don´t know | 0 |
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.
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