Afrobarometer Survey 2014-2015, Merged Round 6 Data (36 Countries)
Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Cameroon, Algeria, Egypt, Arab Rep., Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, K, 2014 - 2015
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Reference ID
AFR_2016_AFB-MR6_v01_M
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Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD, Ghana), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR, South Africa), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP, Benin), Institute for Development Studies (IDS, Kenya), Michigan State University (MSU, United States),
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Q96a. Occupation of respondent (Q96A)
Data file: merged_r6_data_2016_36countries2_12
Overview
Valid:
53935
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
-1
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
2234
End:
2235
Width:
2
Range:
-1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
96A. What is your main occupation? (If unemployed, retired or disabled, what was your last main occupation?)
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 33 |
0.1%
|
| 0 | Never had a job | 5953 |
11%
|
| 1 | Student | 5344 |
9.9%
|
| 2 | Housewife / homemaker | 5540 |
10.3%
|
| 3 | Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry | 12375 |
22.9%
|
| 4 | Trader / hawker / vendor | 4864 |
9%
|
| 5 | Retail / Shop | 2195 |
4.1%
|
| 6 | Unskilled manual worker | 4850 |
9%
|
| 7 | Artisan or skilled manual worker | 4074 |
7.6%
|
| 8 | Clerical or secretarial | 947 |
1.8%
|
| 9 | Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager | 660 |
1.2%
|
| 10 | Security services | 931 |
1.7%
|
| 11 | Mid-level professional | 3080 |
5.7%
|
| 12 | Upper-level professional | 1150 |
2.1%
|
| 95 | Other | 1766 |
3.3%
|
| 98 | Refused | 2 |
0%
|
| 99 | Don't know | 171 |
0.3%
|
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.