General Census of the Population and Habitat 2010 - IPUMS Subset
Togo, 2010
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TGO_2010_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics (INSEED), IPUMS
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- TGO2010_PHC-H-H.dat
- TGO2010_PHC-P-H.dat
Occupation (3-digits) (TG2010A_OCC2)
Data file: TGO2010_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
249
End:
251
Width:
3
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<span class="h2">Economic activities</span></p>
<p><span class="em">For those occupied and the unemployed who have already worked </span>
<br />[See column P20. Questions P21 through P23 were asked of persons age 6 or more who reported have worked in question P20.]</p>
<p>(P21) Current profession ____ _ _ _</p>
<div class="i1">Record current profession on the dotted lines</div>
<p><span class="em">For those occupied and the unemployed who have already worked </span>
<br />[See column P20. Questions P21 through P23 were asked of persons age 6 or more who reported have worked in question P20.]</p>
<p>(P21) Current profession ____ _ _ _</p>
<div class="i1">Record current profession on the dotted lines</div>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 001 | Army and security |
| 009 | Other trades and professions |
| 120 | Higher civil service managers |
| 121 | Higher civil service managers |
| 130 | Traditional chief and village chief |
| 140 | Managing directors |
| 150 | Managing directors of companies |
| 199 | Other managers, executives, officials, legislators |
| 212 | Computing specialists |
| 213 | Architects, engineers, and similar |
| 220 | Life science specialists |
| 223 | Doctors and similar |
| 224 | Nursing managers |
| 230 | University and higher education teachers |
| 231 | Secondary education teachers |
| 232 | Primary and specialized education teacher |
| 233 | Other teaching specialists |
| 240 | Accounting managers |
| 243 | Lawyers |
| 244 | Archivists, librarians, documentalists, and similar |
| 252 | Philosophers, historians, and political science specialists |
| 255 | Social work specialists |
| 256 | Social and human science specialists, n.e.c. |
| 260 | Authors, journalists, and other writers |
| 262 | Sculptors, painters, and similar |
| 263 | Composers, musicians, and singers |
| 270 | Member of the clergy |
| 271 | Member of traditional religions |
| 299 | Other intellectual and scientific professions, n.e.c. |
| 300 | Territorial administration, employment and social security managers |
| 302 | Health and social affairs managers |
| 303 | Health and social affairs managers |
| 304 | Telecommunications, transport, equipment and building, construction managers |
| 306 | Higher managers in financial resources, budget, planning, commerce, banks, and insurance |
| 308 | Higher managers in agriculture, livestock, and forestry |
| 311 | Higher managers in Information, writers, creative, and performing artists |
| 313 | Other higher managers n.e.c. |
| 314 | Physical and technical science technicians |
| 319 | Intermediary professions - higher managers, n.e.c. |
| 320 | Middle managers in administration, employment and social security |
| 321 | Middle managers in teaching and librarianship |
| 322 | Middle managers in health and social work |
| 324 | Middle managers in financial resources, budget, planning, commerce, banks, and insurance |
| 325 | Middle managers in agriculture, livestock, forestry, geology and mines |
| 327 | Middle managers in creative arts, theater, and sports |
| 329 | Intermediary professions - middle manager, n.e.c. |
| 401 | Territorial administration elementary managers |
| 402 | Elementary managers in agriculture, forest farming , geology and mines |
| 403 | Elementary managers in administration, finance, treasury, planning, commerce, banks, and insurance |
| 406 | Elementary managers of equipment, transport, and telecommunications in building |
| 407 | Elementary managers in health |
| 408 | Other elementary staff |
| 409 | Administrative type staff and elementary administration manager n.e.c. |
| 500 | Services staff and store and market traders |
| 600 | Farmers and qualified workers in agriculture and fishing |
| 700 | Artisans and workers of artisanal type trades |
| 800 | Installation and machine operators and assembly workers |
| 900 | Unqualified workers and employees |
| 999 | 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
<span class="h3">B- Economic activities</span></p>
<p>Economic activity means any activity of production of goods or services intended to be the subject of an economic exchange or a personal use.</p>
<p><span class="em">Column P21: Employment practiced</span></p>
<p>For occupied persons pose the following question: "What is the current employment practiced by [the respondent]?"</p>
<p>For the unemployed having already worked (CDT), pose the following question: "What was the last job practiced by [the respondent]?"</p>
<p><span class="ital">NB 30: For those who state having practiced several jobs simultaneously during the week of reference, note that which has taken up most of their time and record it on the dotted lines.</span></p>
<p><span class="ital">NB 31: For priests, pastors, monks, imams, voodoo priests, and other religious clerics, ask if beyond their activities of faith, they do not practice other remunerative activities such as fabric trader, teacher in the CEG, nurse, medical practitioner, and so on. In this case, it is this profession, which will be recorded.</span></p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 38]</span></p>
<p>Examples of employment practiced: sorghum farmer, coffee planter, wood joiner, tailor, goat farmer, motorcycle mechanic, cloth seller, local drink dealer, primary school teacher, taxi drive, musical artist, secretary at the CEET, driver at the CHU, and so on.</p>
<p><span class="ital">NB 32:<br /><div class="i1">- The current profession is not necessarily the trade learned. A carpenter by training can have as current profession "general labourer" or "builder's labourer".<br />- Avoid recording incomplete responses such as: trader, civil servant, inspector, engineer, teacher, doctor, business man, secretary, driver, and so on. Try to specify the employment practiced.</div></span></p>
<p>Examples of employment practiced:</p>
<div class="i1">- Seller of cloth, seller of peanuts, seller of cola, and so on.<br />- Police inspector, tax inspector, labour inspector, treasury inspector.<br />- Pre-school and primary inspector, first cycle of secondary inspector, 2nd cycle of secondary inspector.<br />- Medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon, and so on.<br />- TP engineer, Agronomist engineer, rural engineering engineer, civil engineering engineer...<br />- Primary school director, CEG director, company director.<br />- CEG teacher, High school teacher, University lecturer, Technical education teacher, and so on.<br />- Apprentice dressmaker, apprentice hairdresser.<br />- Health center secretary, bank secretary, CEG secretary, and so on.</div>
<p>Economic activity means any activity of production of goods or services intended to be the subject of an economic exchange or a personal use.</p>
<p><span class="em">Column P21: Employment practiced</span></p>
<p>For occupied persons pose the following question: "What is the current employment practiced by [the respondent]?"</p>
<p>For the unemployed having already worked (CDT), pose the following question: "What was the last job practiced by [the respondent]?"</p>
<p><span class="ital">NB 30: For those who state having practiced several jobs simultaneously during the week of reference, note that which has taken up most of their time and record it on the dotted lines.</span></p>
<p><span class="ital">NB 31: For priests, pastors, monks, imams, voodoo priests, and other religious clerics, ask if beyond their activities of faith, they do not practice other remunerative activities such as fabric trader, teacher in the CEG, nurse, medical practitioner, and so on. In this case, it is this profession, which will be recorded.</span></p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 38]</span></p>
<p>Examples of employment practiced: sorghum farmer, coffee planter, wood joiner, tailor, goat farmer, motorcycle mechanic, cloth seller, local drink dealer, primary school teacher, taxi drive, musical artist, secretary at the CEET, driver at the CHU, and so on.</p>
<p><span class="ital">NB 32:<br /><div class="i1">- The current profession is not necessarily the trade learned. A carpenter by training can have as current profession "general labourer" or "builder's labourer".<br />- Avoid recording incomplete responses such as: trader, civil servant, inspector, engineer, teacher, doctor, business man, secretary, driver, and so on. Try to specify the employment practiced.</div></span></p>
<p>Examples of employment practiced:</p>
<div class="i1">- Seller of cloth, seller of peanuts, seller of cola, and so on.<br />- Police inspector, tax inspector, labour inspector, treasury inspector.<br />- Pre-school and primary inspector, first cycle of secondary inspector, 2nd cycle of secondary inspector.<br />- Medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon, and so on.<br />- TP engineer, Agronomist engineer, rural engineering engineer, civil engineering engineer...<br />- Primary school director, CEG director, company director.<br />- CEG teacher, High school teacher, University lecturer, Technical education teacher, and so on.<br />- Apprentice dressmaker, apprentice hairdresser.<br />- Health center secretary, bank secretary, CEG secretary, and so on.</div>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates person's occupation (at 3-digits) during the week of reference.
Universe
Togo 2010: Persons age 6+ who ever worked [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |