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IV Housing Census and IX Population Census of 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Guatemala, 1981
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GTM_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS
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Class of worker (GT1981A_EMPSTAT)

Data file: GTM1981_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 304
End: 304
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">VII. People in the census household</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Only for those who answered 1, 2, or 3 in question 16</span>
<br />[Questions 17 - 20 are asked for persons who responded 1, 2, or 3 in question 16]</p>

<p>20. Occupational category</p>
<div class="i1">What category [position] did you have in the principal occupation indicated above?<br /><br />[] 1 Employer<br />[] 2 Self-employed<br />[] 3 Public sector employee<br />[] 4 Private sector paid employee<br />[] 5 Unpaid family worker<br />[] 9 Unknown</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Owner or boss
2 Self-employed
3 Public employee
4 Salaried employee
5 Unpaid family 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.
Interviewer instructions
<svar v=" GT81A428 GT81A429 GT81A430 GT81A431 GT81A432 GT81A433 GT81A434 GT81A435 GT81A436 GT81A437 GT81A438 GT81A439 GT81A440 GT81A441 GT81A442 GT81A443"><span class="h2">D. Fourth block: economic characteristics (for those 10 years of age and older).</span><br /><br />Questions 16 through 20 are only presented to those 10 years of age and older.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="GT81A429 GT81A430 GT81A431 GT81A432 GT81A433">Note: questions 17-20 are only presented to those who answered 1, 2, or 3 for question 16. For those answering 4-9, an "X" is marked in all of the spaces for questions 17-20.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="GT81A433"><span class="em">Question 20: occupational category</span><br /><br />1. How to formulate the question<br /><br />What was your employment status in the principal occupation indicated in question 17?<br /><br />The list of different alternative answers is slowly read, one by one, until the enumerated person is classified into one of them.<br /><br />The following definitions will help orient the enumerated person.<br /><br /><span class="em">a. Employer</span>: This refers to those who have one or more salaried persons in their charge carrying out an economic activity; that is, workers who receive monetary or in-kind remuneration. One who has no employees is not an employer.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 87]</span><br /><br /><span class="em">b. Own account</span>: This refers to those who work independently, who do not have remunerated employees and are not employees of anyone else. An own-account worker can count on the help of family workers and can work alone or as an associate.<br /><br /><span class="em">c. Public sector employee</span>: This refers to employees who receive a salary or wage from any state agency, either from the central government or from semi-autonomous or a decentralized entity (municipality, Institute of Social Security, Universidad de San Carlos, ministries, etc.).<br /><br /><span class="em">d. Private sector paid employee</span>: This refers to employees who receive a wage or salary from a company whose capital is private (Factories, Stores, Private Farms, etc.).<br /><br /><span class="em">e. Unpaid family worker</span>: This refers to those who carry out an unpaid occupation in an establishment operated by a relative, working at least 15 hours per week. Excluded from this category are those who carry out domestic duties or occasional tasks in the establishment.<br /><br />2. How to record the data<br /><br />The number corresponding to the answer is circled. "9. Not known" is circled only when the informant does not know the employment status of the household member.<br /><br />3. Example:<br /><br />[These instructions refer to a graphic of question 20 of the census form]<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the status of an economically active person concerning his or her employment.
Universe
Guatemala 1981: Persons age 10+ who ever worked [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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