The 2000 General Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Turkiye, 2000

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TUR_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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State Institute of Statistics of Turkey, IPUMS

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Current occupation, 1 digit (TR2000A_OCC1)

Data file: TUR2000_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 192

End: 192

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar v="TR00A420 TR00A421 TR00A422 TR00A423">[Questions 36-39 were asked of persons age 12 or older who had worked during last week or had a job attachment to, as per question 35.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="TR00A420 TR00A421">36. What was your main task or duty at the job that you worked or had a job attachment to in the last week?<br /><div class="i1">(Occupations such as farmer, mechanical engineer, bank manager, typist, history teacher, greengrocer, shoe repairer, barber, carpet machine operative, amateur workman builder, etc., should be written.) General names such as: tradesman, official, worker, self-employed should not be written.<br /><br />________</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Scientific, technical, professional and related workers
2	Administrative and managerial workers
3	Clerical and related workers
4	Commercial and sales workers
5	Services workers
6	Agricultural, animal husbandry, forestry workers, fishermen and hunters
7	Nonagricultural production and related workers, transport equipment operators and laborers
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 current occupation (1-digit) based on the work the person did during the previous week.

Universe

Turkey 2000: Persons age 12+ who worked last week or maintained attachment to a job [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

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