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2015 The Puerto Rico Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 2011 - 2015
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PRI_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Industry last week (NAICS classification) (PR2015A_INDNAICS)

Data file: PRI2015_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Continuous
Start: 427
End: 434
Width: 8
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">L</span> <span class="ital">Answer questions 41-46 if this person worked in the past 5 years. Otherwise, skip to question 7.</span></p>

<p><span class="em"><br />41-46 Current or most recent job activity. Describe clearly this person's chief job activity or business last week. If this person had more than one job, describe the one at which this person worked the most hours. If this person had no job or business last week, give information for his/her last job or business.<br /></span></p>

<p>43. What kind of business or industry was this?</p>
<div class="i1">Describe the activity at the location where employed. (For example: hospital, newspaper, publishing, mail order house, auto engine manufacturing, bank)<br />_______</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's industry, NAICS classification.
Universe
Puerto Rico 2015: Persons age 16+ working within the last five years, not new workers [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
This is a 8-digit numeric variable with 0 implied decimal places
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