1961 Census - IPUMS Subset

United Kingdom, 1961

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Reference ID

GBR_1961_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Office of Population and Surveys for England and Wales, IPUMS

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Occupation (UK1961A_OCC)

Data file: GBR1961_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 66

End: 66

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Professional and related occupations
2	Managerial and technical occupations
3	Skilled non-manual occupations
4	Manual occupations
5	Partly skilled occupations
6	Unskilled occupations
7	Armed forces
8	Unknown
9	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

This variable indicates the person's occupation.

Universe

United Kingdom 1961: Persons age 15+ who are employed [discrepancies: not verifiable]

concept

Concept

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