Ti`dad al-Nufus (Population Census) of 1868 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1865 - 1869

Get Microdata

Reference ID

EGY_1868_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Digital samples created by, IPUMS

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Sep 03, 2025

Last modified

Sep 03, 2025

Page views

109

Occupation title (string) (EG1868A_OCCTITLE)

Data file: EGY1868_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Continuous

Start: 95

End: 175

Width: 81

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h3">Person variables</span></p>

<p>Occupation _ _ _ _ _ _</p>
<div class="i1">Respondent's occupation coded using the Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations (HISCO). The first digit represents major groups classification. Minor groups classification corresponds to the first two digits of the code. Occupations specific to the Egyptian context that do not have an equivalent in HISCO were assigned special codes under a given HISCO major or minor group.</div>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's occupation title (string).

Universe

Egypt 1868: All persons

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

This is a 81-digit numeric variable with 0 implied decimal places

Back to Catalog