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II Housing Census and VII Population Census of 1964 - IPUMS Subset

Guatemala, 1964
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GTM_1964_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS
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Class of worker (GT1964A_CLASSWK)

Data file: GTM1964_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 219
End: 219
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">Educational and occupational characteristics</span>
<br />Persons 7 years old and more
<br />[Questions 15 to 26 are asked of persons age 7+ years old]</p>

<p><span class="em">Occupational situation in the month before the census</span></p>

<p>23. Occupational position: What position do you have in your job?</p>
<div class="i1">According to the person has remunerated workers to his or her orders; he or she works for another person and receives remuneration; he or she works on their own account or with relatives and receives or not remuneration<br /><br />[] 1 Boss<br />[] 2 Employee<br />[] 3 Self-employed<br />[] 4 Paid family worker<br />[] 5 Unpaid family worker or other non-remunerated worker</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Boss
2 Employee
3 Self employed
4 Remunerated family worker
5 Non-remunerated worker
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 status of an economically active person concerning his or her employment.
Universe
Guatemala 1964: Persons age 7+ who worked or looked for work in the last 4 weeks [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

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