Fifth National Population Census - IPUMS Subset
China, 2000
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CHN_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Occupation (3-digit) (CN2000A_OCC2)
Data file: CHN2000_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
216
End:
218
Width:
3
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
20. Please list the specific duty at work. ____
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 000 | NIU (not in universe) |
| 010 | Heads of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and local organizations at all levels |
| 021 | Heads of state power organs and their working institutions |
| 022 | Heads of People's Political Consultative Conference and its working bodies |
| 023 | Heads of the People's Courts |
| 024 | Heads of the People's Procuratorates |
| 025 | Heads of state administrative organs and their working bodies |
| 029 | Heads of other state organs and their working bodies |
| 031 | Heads of democratic parties |
| 032 | Heads of trade unions, the Communist Youth League, the Women's Federation, other people's organizations and their working institutions |
| 033 | Heads of grassroots mass self-governing organizations |
| 039 | Heads of other social groups and their working institutions |
| 041 | Heads of education and teaching units |
| 042 | Heads of health units |
| 043 | Heads of scientific research units |
| 049 | Heads of other institutions |
| 050 | Heads of enterprises |
| 111 | Philosophy researchers |
| 112 | Economics researchers |
| 113 | Law researchers |
| 114 | Sociology researchers |
| 115 | Educational science researchers |
| 116 | Literature and art researchers |
| 117 | Library science and information science researchers |
| 118 | Historical researchers |
| 119 | Management science researchers |
| 121 | Math researchers |
| 122 | Physics researchers |
| 123 | Chemical researchers |
| 125 | Earth science researchers |
| 126 | Biological science researchers |
| 127 | Agricultural science researchers |
| 128 | Medical researchers |
| 129 | Other scientific researchers |
| 131 | Geological exploration engineering technicians |
| 132 | Surveying and mapping engineering technicians |
| 133 | Mine engineering technicians |
| 134 | Petroleum engineering technicians |
| 135 | Metallurgical engineering technicians |
| 136 | Chemical engineering technicians |
| 137 | Mechanical engineering technicians |
| 138 | Ordnance engineering technicians |
| 139 | Aeronautical engineering technicians |
| 141 | Aerospace engineering technicians |
| 142 | Electronic engineering technicians |
| 143 | Communication engineering technicians |
| 144 | Computer and application engineering technicians |
| 145 | Electrical engineering technicians |
| 146 | Power engineering technicians |
| 147 | Postal engineering technicians |
| 148 | Radio, film and television engineering technicians |
| 149 | Transportation engineering technicians |
| 151 | Civil aviation engineering technicians |
| 152 | Railway engineering technicians |
| 153 | Construction engineering technicians |
| 154 | Building materials engineering technicians |
| 155 | Forestry engineering technicians |
| 156 | Hydraulic engineering technicians |
| 157 | Marine engineering technicians |
| 158 | Aquatic engineering technicians |
| 159 | Textile engineering technicians |
| 161 | Food engineering technicians |
| 162 | Meteorological engineering technicians |
| 163 | Earthquake engineering technicians |
| 164 | Environmental protection engineering technicians |
| 165 | Security engineering technicians |
| 166 | Standardization, metering and quality engineering technicians |
| 167 | Management (industry) engineering technicians |
| 169 | Engineering technicians, unknown |
| 171 | Soil and fertilizer technicians |
| 172 | Plant protection technicians |
| 173 | Gardening technicians |
| 174 | Crop genetics, breeding and cultivation technicians |
| 175 | Veterinarians, veterinary technicians |
| 176 | Animal husbandry and grass technicians |
| 179 | Other agricultural technicians |
| 181 | Flight crew and pilots |
| 182 | Ship commanders and pilots |
| 189 | Other aircraft and marine technicians |
| 191 | Western medicine physicians |
| 192 | Traditional Chinese medicine physicians |
| 193 | Integrative Chinese and western medicine physicians |
| 194 | Ethnic physicians |
| 195 | Public health physicians |
| 196 | Pharmacy personnel |
| 197 | Medical technicians |
| 198 | Nursing personnel |
| 199 | Other professional health technicians |
| 211 | Economic planner |
| 212 | Statistician |
| 213 | Accounting personnel |
| 214 | Auditors |
| 215 | International business people |
| 219 | Other economic professionals or unknown |
| 221 | Bank business personnel |
| 222 | Insurance business personnel |
| 223 | Securities business personnel |
| 229 | Other financial professionals or unknown |
| 231 | Judges |
| 232 | Prosecutors |
| 233 | Lawyers |
| 234 | Notaries |
| 235 | Judicial identification personnel |
| 236 | Clerks |
| 239 | Other legal professionals or unknown |
| 241 | Higher education teachers |
| 242 | Secondary vocational education teachers |
| 243 | High school teachers |
| 244 | Elementary school teachers |
| 245 | Kindergarten teachers |
| 246 | Special education teachers |
| 249 | Other teaching personnel or unknown |
| 251 | Literary writers and critics |
| 252 | Choreographers and music conductors |
| 253 | Actors or actresses |
| 254 | Instrumentalists |
| 255 | Film, television production and stage professionals |
| 256 | Arts professionals |
| 257 | Arts and crafts professionals |
| 259 | Other literary and art workers, or unknown |
| 260 | Sports staff |
| 271 | Reporters |
| 272 | Editors |
| 273 | Proofreaders |
| 274 | Announcers and presenters |
| 275 | Translators and interpreters |
| 276 | Libraries and archives business personnel |
| 277 | Archaeology and cultural relics protection staff |
| 279 | Other press, publication and cultural staff |
| 280 | Religious professionals |
| 290 | Other professional technicians |
| 311 | Administrative business personnel |
| 312 | Administrative affairs personnel |
| 319 | Other administrative office staff or unknown |
| 321 | People's police |
| 322 | Security guards |
| 323 | Firefighters |
| 329 | Other security officers, police, and firefighters, or unknown |
| 331 | Postal business personnel |
| 332 | Telecommunication business personnel |
| 333 | Telecommunications and communication transmission business personnel |
| 339 | Other postal and telecommunications services workers or unknown |
| 390 | Other office staff and related personnel |
| 411 | Operating personnel |
| 412 | Sales personnel |
| 413 | Procurement personnel |
| 414 | Auction, pawn and leasing personnel |
| 415 | Recycling of waste materials personnel |
| 416 | Grain and oil management personnel |
| 417 | Commodity surveillance and market management personnel |
| 419 | Other commercial staff or unknown |
| 421 | Custodians |
| 422 | Storage and transportation personnel |
| 429 | Other warehouse staff or unknown |
| 431 | Chinese cooking personnel |
| 432 | Western cooking personnel |
| 433 | Bartender and tea art personnel |
| 434 | Nutritious meals personnel |
| 435 | Restaurant service personnel |
| 439 | Other attendants in restaurants or unknown |
| 441 | Hotel service personnel |
| 442 | Tourist and public tour place service personnel |
| 443 | Fitness and recreation place service personnel |
| 449 | Other hotel, tourism and fitness entertainment service personnel |
| 451 | Freeway and road transportation service personnel |
| 452 | Railway passenger and freight transportation service personnel |
| 453 | Air transportation service personnel |
| 454 | Water transportation service personnel |
| 459 | Other transportation service personnel |
| 460 | Auxiliary health service personnel |
| 471 | Social intermediary service personnel |
| 472 | Property management personnel |
| 473 | Water, heating and domestic fuel supply service personnel |
| 474 | Beauty salon personnel |
| 475 | Photography service personnel |
| 476 | Optometry and glasses personnel |
| 477 | Dyeing and darning personnel |
| 478 | Bath service personnel |
| 479 | Seal lettering personnel |
| 481 | Daily mechanical and electrical product maintenance personnel |
| 482 | Office equipment maintenance personnel |
| 483 | Childcare, family service personnel |
| 484 | Environmental sanitation personnel |
| 485 | Funeral service personnel |
| 489 | Other social services and residential domestic service personnel |
| 490 | Other commercial and service personnel |
| 511 | Field crop production personnel |
| 512 | Agricultural experiment personnel |
| 513 | Horticultural crop production personnel |
| 514 | Tropical crop production personnel |
| 515 | Chinese herbal medicine production personnel |
| 516 | Agricultural,sideline and forestry products processing personnel |
| 519 | Other plant production personnel |
| 521 | Forestry personnel |
| 522 | Forest resource management and protection personnel |
| 523 | Wildlife protection and nature reservation personnel |
| 524 | Wood logging and transportation personnel |
| 529 | Other forestry production and wildlife protection personnel |
| 531 | Livestock breeders |
| 532 | Poultry breeders |
| 533 | Bee breeders |
| 534 | Laboratory animal breeders |
| 535 | Animal disease control personnel |
| 536 | Grass production personnel |
| 539 | Other animal husbandry production personnel |
| 541 | Aquaculture personnel |
| 542 | Aquatic fishing and related personnel |
| 543 | Fishery production staff, undocumented category |
| 549 | Other fishery production personnel |
| 551 | River and reservoir maintenance personnel |
| 552 | Farmland irrigation and drainage engineering construction management and maintenance personnel |
| 553 | Soil and water conservation operating personnel |
| 554 | Hydrographic survey operating personnel |
| 559 | Other water conservancy facilities management and maintenance workers |
| 591 | Agricultural and forestry machinery operators |
| 592 | Rural energy development and utilization personnel |
| 598 | Other agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries and water conservancy production personnel, unknown |
| 611 | Geological exploration personnel |
| 612 | Mapping personnel |
| 613 | Mineral mining personnel |
| 614 | Mineral processing personnel |
| 615 | Drilling personnel |
| 616 | Oil and gas extraction personnel |
| 617 | Salt production personnel |
| 619 | Other exploration and mineral mining personnel |
| 621 | Ironmaking personnel |
| 622 | Steelmaking personnel |
| 623 | Ferroalloy smelting personnel |
| 624 | Heavy non-ferrous metal smelting personnel |
| 625 | Light non-ferrous metal smelting personnel |
| 626 | Precious metal smelting personnel |
| 627 | Semiconductor material preparation personnel |
| 628 | Metal rolling personnel |
| 629 | Cast iron pipe personnel |
| 631 | Carbon product production personnel |
| 632 | Carbide production personnel |
| 639 | Other metal smelting and rolling personnel |
| 641 | General technical personnel for chemical product production |
| 642 | Petroleum refining production personnel |
| 643 | Coal chemical production personnel |
| 644 | Chemical fertilizer production personnel |
| 645 | Inorganic chemical products production personnel |
| 646 | Basic organic chemical products production personnel |
| 647 | Synthetic resin production personnel |
| 648 | Synthetic rubber production personnel |
| 649 | Chemical fiber production personnel |
| 651 | Synthetic leather production personnel |
| 652 | Fine chemical products production personnel |
| 653 | Information recording material production personnel |
| 654 | Gunpowder and explosive production personnel |
| 655 | Forestry chemical products production personnel |
| 656 | Composite material processing personnel |
| 657 | Daily chemical production personnel |
| 659 | Other chemical products production personnel |
| 661 | Mechanical cold processing personnel |
| 662 | Mechanical hot processing personnel |
| 663 | Special processing equipment operators |
| 664 | Cold sheet metal processing personnel |
| 665 | Workpiece surface treatment processing personnel |
| 666 | Abrasive and tool manufacturing and processing personnel |
| 667 | Aerospace device processing and molding personnel |
| 669 | Other machinery manufacturing and processing personnel |
| 671 | Basic part and component assembly personnel |
| 672 | Mechanical equipment assembly personnel |
| 673 | Power equipment assembly personnel |
| 674 | Electrical components and equipment assembly personnel |
| 675 | Special electronic equipment assembly and debugging personnel |
| 676 | Instrumentation assembly personnel |
| 677 | Transportation vehicle assembly personnel |
| 678 | Membrane water treatment equipment manufacturing personnel |
| 679 | Medical device assembly and prosthetics and orthotics production personnel |
| 681 | Daily machinery and electrical appliances manufacturing and assembly personnel |
| 682 | Hardware production and assembly personnel |
| 683 | Armored vehicle assembly and test personnel |
| 684 | Gun manufacturing personnel |
| 685 | Bomb manufacturing personnel |
| 687 | Pyrotechnics manufacturing personnel |
| 688 | Anti-chemical device manufacturing personnel |
| 689 | Shipbuilding personnel |
| 691 | Aviation product assembly and debugging personnel |
| 699 | Other electromechanical product assembly personnel |
| 711 | Mechanical equipment maintenance personnel |
| 712 | Instrumentation repairer personnel |
| 713 | Civil aircraft maintenance personnel |
| 719 | Other mechanical equipment maintenance personnel |
| 721 | Power equipment installation personnel |
| 722 | Power generation operation duty personnel |
| 723 | Power transmission, distribution and substation equipment duty personnel |
| 724 | Power equipment service personnel |
| 725 | Power supply and consumption personnel |
| 726 | Life and production power equipment installation, operation and repair personnel |
| 729 | Other power equipment installation, operation, service and power supply personnel |
| 731 | Electronic component manufacturing personnel |
| 732 | Electronic element manufacturing personnel |
| 733 | Battery manufacturing personnel |
| 734 | Electronic equipment assembly and debugging personnel |
| 735 | Electronic product maintenance personnel |
| 739 | Other electronic components and equipment manufacturing, assembly, debugging and maintenance personnel |
| 741 | Rubber products production personnel |
| 742 | Plastic products processing personnel |
| 749 | Other rubber and plastic products production personnel |
| 751 | Fiber Pretreatment personnel |
| 752 | Spinning personnel |
| 753 | Weaving personnel |
| 754 | Knitting personnel |
| 755 | Printing and dyeing personnel |
| 759 | Other textile, knitting, printing and dyeing personnel |
| 761 | Cutting and sewing personnel |
| 762 | Shoe and hat production personnel |
| 763 | Leather and fur processing personnel |
| 764 | Sewing products reprocessing personnel |
| 769 | Other production personnel for cutting, sewing and processing of leather and fur products |
| 771 | Grain and oil production and processing personnel |
| 772 | Sugar production and sugar products processing personnel |
| 773 | Dairy, cold food and canned food, beverage production personnel |
| 774 | Brewing, food additives and condiments production personnel |
| 775 | Grain, oil and food production personnel |
| 776 | Slaughter and processing personnel |
| 777 | Meat and egg food processing personnel |
| 778 | Feed production and processing personnel |
| 779 | Other grain and oil, food, beverage production and processing and feed production and processing personnel |
| 781 | Original Tobacco redrying personnel |
| 782 | Cigarette production personnel |
| 783 | Tobacco acetate fiber tow rod production personnel |
| 789 | Other tobacco and its products processing personnel |
| 791 | Synthetic medicine manufacturing personnel |
| 792 | Biotechnology pharmaceutical (product) personnel |
| 793 | Pharmaceutical agent personnel |
| 794 | Chinese herbal medicine pharmaceutical personnel |
| 799 | Other pharmaceutical production personnel |
| 811 | Wood processing personnel |
| 812 | Wood-based panel production personnel |
| 813 | Wood products production personnel |
| 814 | Pulping personnel |
| 815 | Paper making personnel |
| 816 | Paper products production personnel |
| 819 | Other wood processing, wood-based panel production, wood product production and pulping, paper making and paper products production and processing personnel |
| 821 | Cement and cement products production and processing personnel |
| 822 | Wall and roofing materials production personnel |
| 823 | Waterproof and sealing building materials production personnel |
| 824 | Building insulation and sound-absorbing materials production personnel |
| 825 | Decorative stone production personnel |
| 826 | Non-metallic minerals and their products production and processing personnel |
| 827 | Refractory materials production personnel |
| 829 | Other building materials production and processing personnel |
| 831 | Glass melting and production personnel |
| 832 | Fiberglass and its products production personnel |
| 833 | Quartz glass products processing personnel |
| 834 | Ceramic products production personnel |
| 835 | Enamel products production personnel |
| 839 | Other glass, ceramics, enamel and their products production and processing personnel |
| 841 | Film and television products production personnel |
| 842 | Audio-visual products production and reproduction personnel |
| 843 | Installation, commissioning and operation operators of radio, film and television stage equipment |
| 844 | Film projection personnel |
| 845 | Cultural relics protection operating personnel |
| 849 | Other radio, film and television products production and broadcasting personnel, cultural relics protection operating personnel |
| 851 | Pre-printing processing personnel |
| 852 | Printing operators |
| 853 | Post-printing production personnel |
| 859 | Other printing personnel |
| 861 | Jewelry processing and production personnel |
| 862 | Carpet production personnel |
| 863 | Toy production personnel |
| 864 | Lacquer handicrafts production personnel |
| 865 | Drawnwork and embroidery handicrafts production personnel |
| 866 | Metal handicrafts production personnel |
| 867 | Carving handicrafts production personnel |
| 868 | Crafts production personnel |
| 869 | Other arts and crafts production personnel |
| 871 | Cultural and educational supplies production personnel |
| 872 | Sports supplies production personnel |
| 873 | Musical instruments production personnel |
| 879 | Other cultural, educational and sports supplies production personnel |
| 881 | Earthwork construction personnel |
| 882 | Masonry personnel |
| 883 | Concrete preparation and products processing personnel |
| 884 | Steel reinforcing bar processing personnel |
| 885 | Construction shelf erection personnel |
| 886 | Engineering waterproofing personnel |
| 887 | Decoration and remodeling personnel |
| 888 | Ancient building repair and building personnel |
| 889 | Road construction, maintenance, repair personnel |
| 891 | Engineering equipment installation personnel |
| 899 | Other engineering construction personnel |
| 911 | Freeway (road) transportation machinery and equipment operators and related personnel |
| 912 | Railway and subway transportation machinery and equipment operators and related personnel |
| 913 | Civil aviation equipment operators and related personnel |
| 914 | Water transportation equipment operators and related personnel |
| 915 | Lifting and unloading machinery operators and related personnel |
| 919 | Other transportation equipment operators and related personnel |
| 921 | Environmental monitoring and waste disposal workers, undocumented category |
| 922 | Environmental monitoring and waste disposal workers, undocumented category |
| 923 | Environmental monitoring and waste disposal workers, undocumented category |
| 929 | Environmental monitoring and waste disposal workers, undocumented category |
| 931 | Inspection personnel |
| 932 | Aviation product inspection personnel |
| 933 | Spacecraft inspection and test personnel |
| 934 | Metering personnel |
| 939 | Other inspection and metering personnel |
| 991 | Package worker |
| 992 | Pump operators |
| 993 | Simple physical work labors |
| 999 | Other production, transport equipment operators and related workers, unknown |
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
<span class="h2">Part One. Personal Records</span></p>
<p><span class="h3">The following questions reflect economic characteristics of the population. </span></p>
<p><span class="em">R17 through R24 apply to persons who are 15 years or older. </span></p>
<p><span class="em">R20. Occupation</span>
<br />It refers to any kinds of paid social activities a person undertakes. Need to fill in the detailed work. This question should be answered by persons who chose 1 or 2 in R17.
<br />Categorization of occupation follows the principle of "uniformity" of the nature of work. Uniformity means persons who conduct uniform types of work, regardless of their economic sectors, contract terms, or industrial focuses, should be put in the same category. The census defines 8 major categories, 65 secondary categories, and 410 minor categories for occupation.
<br />Filling in this question should pay attention to the following things:</p>
<div class="i1">Fill in the detailed work. For example, avoid using general terms such as "worker", but be specific about the types of work such as "locksmith", "mine worker", etc. Persons work in government agencies also need to specify the detailed work content, such as "typist" and "statistician" rather than simply putting them as "cadre". For technical staff, write down their fields of expertise instead of putting them as "researcher" or "engineer". <br />For persons who take senior positions of technical or administrative rank, include their specific titles and posts in the answers.<br />If a person's work duties are not yet decided or a person is not undertaking any specific tasks, put "undecided" in the answer.<br />If a person does not have a regular or permanent job, record the work he or she undertook during the week prior to the census. <br />If a person engages in agricultural work, as long as he or she has a relatively stable job in village- or township- enterprises, put down the enterprise job (even if the person works on farmland a week prior to the census).<br />If a person engaged in more than one types of work the week prior to the census, record the one that he or she worked for the longest period of time. If time is unknown, record the one with the highest pay. If a person engages in different jobs at the same workplace, record the one that is more "technically advanced". <br />If encountering a person who is unfamiliar with types of occupation or is illiterate, ask carefully before recording his or her answers.<br />If encountering a person who does not know his or her or their family member's occupation, ask carefully before recording answers.</div><p>This question is the last one asking about economic activities of employed persons. Those who answered this question can skip R21 and R22 and go directly to R23.
<p><span class="h3">The following questions reflect economic characteristics of the population. </span></p>
<p><span class="em">R17 through R24 apply to persons who are 15 years or older. </span></p>
<p><span class="em">R20. Occupation</span>
<br />It refers to any kinds of paid social activities a person undertakes. Need to fill in the detailed work. This question should be answered by persons who chose 1 or 2 in R17.
<br />Categorization of occupation follows the principle of "uniformity" of the nature of work. Uniformity means persons who conduct uniform types of work, regardless of their economic sectors, contract terms, or industrial focuses, should be put in the same category. The census defines 8 major categories, 65 secondary categories, and 410 minor categories for occupation.
<br />Filling in this question should pay attention to the following things:</p>
<div class="i1">Fill in the detailed work. For example, avoid using general terms such as "worker", but be specific about the types of work such as "locksmith", "mine worker", etc. Persons work in government agencies also need to specify the detailed work content, such as "typist" and "statistician" rather than simply putting them as "cadre". For technical staff, write down their fields of expertise instead of putting them as "researcher" or "engineer". <br />For persons who take senior positions of technical or administrative rank, include their specific titles and posts in the answers.<br />If a person's work duties are not yet decided or a person is not undertaking any specific tasks, put "undecided" in the answer.<br />If a person does not have a regular or permanent job, record the work he or she undertook during the week prior to the census. <br />If a person engages in agricultural work, as long as he or she has a relatively stable job in village- or township- enterprises, put down the enterprise job (even if the person works on farmland a week prior to the census).<br />If a person engaged in more than one types of work the week prior to the census, record the one that he or she worked for the longest period of time. If time is unknown, record the one with the highest pay. If a person engages in different jobs at the same workplace, record the one that is more "technically advanced". <br />If encountering a person who is unfamiliar with types of occupation or is illiterate, ask carefully before recording his or her answers.<br />If encountering a person who does not know his or her or their family member's occupation, ask carefully before recording answers.</div><p>This question is the last one asking about economic activities of employed persons. Those who answered this question can skip R21 and R22 and go directly to R23.
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the person's occupation (3-digit).
Universe
China 2000: Persons age 15+ who worked or had a job last week [discrepancies: none]
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |