Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset
Cameroon, 2005
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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS
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Profession (CM2005A_PROFESN)
Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
313
End:
315
Width:
3
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar v="CM05A503 CM05A504 CM05A505 CM05A506 CM05A507 CM05A508 CM05A509"><span class="h3">Economic activity for persons aged 6 years and above</span><br />[Questions 27 to 33 were asked of persons aged 6 years and older.]<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="CM05A503">27. Profession<br />What is your profession? _ _ _ <br /><div class="i1">[Question 27 was asked of persons aged 6 years and older.]</div><br /><div class="i1">See code list</div><br /></svar>
<p><svar a="all" v="CM05A503">27. Profession<br />What is your profession? _ _ _ <br /><div class="i1">[Question 27 was asked of persons aged 6 years and older.]</div><br /><div class="i1">See code list</div><br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 011 | Armed forces |
| 012 | Gendarmery (military force charged with police duties) |
| 013 | Police |
| 014 | Armed forces n.e.c |
| 111 | Members of the executive and legislative bodies |
| 112 | Senior executives of public administration |
| 113 | Traditional chiefs and heads of villages |
| 114 | Executives of public and semi-public |
| 115 | Heads of mission diplomatic and international organizations |
| 117 | Officers and directors of organizations of employers or workers |
| 119 | Other members of the executive and legislative bodies, and senior government n.e.c |
| 121 | Ceos and directors of companies and private corporations modern |
| 122 | Senior management, production and operations enterprises and companies in the modern sector |
| 123 | Senior management companies and corporations in the modern sector |
| 131 | Managers of small and medium enterprise (SME PMI) |
| 139 | Other leaders and managers n.e.c |
| 211 | Physicists, geologists, meteorologists, astronomers, and similar geophysicists |
| 212 | Mathematicians, statisticians and assimilated |
| 213 | Techies engineer, engineer cyberneticians engineer telecommunications engineer and assimilated |
| 214 | Engineer, architects, planners, surveyors and assimilated |
| 215 | Civil engineers, engineer of public works, civil engineer pavement, cartographers engineer, engineer surveyors, engineers surveyors |
| 216 | Electrical engineers, electronics engineers, electricians engineers |
| 217 | Agronomist, agriculture engineer, engineer of rural engineering, engineer and engineer zootechnician assimilated |
| 218 | Engineer air navigation drivers aircraft commanders and assimilated |
| 219 | Engineer n.e.c |
| 221 | Biologist, zoologist, botanist, agronomist, bacteriologist, pharmacologist |
| 222 | Physicians, dentists, pharmacists, veterinarians |
| 223 | Senior nurses and midwives |
| 229 | Other medical scientists and life sciences |
| 231 | College, university and higher education institutions |
| 232 | Professor of secondary education |
| 233 | Teacher of primary and pre-primary |
| 234 | Teachers specialized in the education of disabled |
| 239 | Other teaching professionals |
| 241 | Administrative and commercial enterprises specialists |
| 242 | Legal professionals (lawyers, magistrates and the like) |
| 243 | Archivists, librarians, documentalists |
| 244 | Social science (economist, sociologist, anthropologist, demographer, philosopher, psychologist, historian, linguist, translator, interpreter, specialist in political science, social work specialists) |
| 245 | Writers and creative artists (author, journalist, editors and other specialists information processing, composer, singers, choreographers, sculptor, painters and assimilated) |
| 246 | Clergy |
| 249 | Other professionals intellectual and scientific |
| 311 | Techniques of physical and engineering science |
| 312 | Console operators and other operators of computer hardware technicians |
| 313 | Optical and electronic equipment |
| 314 | Technicians means of sea and air transport |
| 315 | Inspector of buildings, safety, hygiene and quality |
| 316 | Intermediate professions and related statistical work |
| 317 | Social science associate professionals |
| 319 | Other associate professionals physical and technical |
| 321 | Technicians and related life sciences and health |
| 322 | Intermediate occupations of modern medicine (except nursing) classified 223 |
| 323 | Nursing and midwifery (intermediate level) |
| 324 | Traditional medicine practitioners and healers |
| 329 | Other associate professionals life science and health |
| 331 | Intermediate occupations in primary education |
| 332 | Professionals pre-primary education |
| 333 | Professions intermediate education for the disabled |
| 339 | Other teaching associate professionals |
| 341 | Associate professionals finance and sales |
| 342 | Agents and trade brokers |
| 343 | Administrative associate professionals |
| 344 | Intermediate occupations of government customs and taxes, and similar |
| 345 | Inspectors of police and detectives |
| 346 | Intermediate professions of social work |
| 347 | Associate professionals artistic, entertainment and sports |
| 348 | Religious associate |
| 349 | Other associate professionals n.e.c. |
| 411 | Secretaries and keyboard-operating |
| 412 | Employees of accounting and financial services |
| 413 | Employees procurement, scheduling and transport |
| 414 | Library, mail service and similar |
| 419 | Other office clerks |
| 421 | Cashiers, tellers and related clerks |
| 422 | Employees receiving and customer information |
| 429 | Other employees receiving, cashiers, tellers n.e.c |
| 511 | Travel attendants and related |
| 512 | Housekeeping and restaurant services |
| 513 | Personal care and related |
| 514 | Other personal services to individuals (hairdressers, specialist beauty treatments and related workers, company staff and valets, agents undertakers and embalmers) |
| 515 | Astrologers, fortune-tellers and related workers |
| 516 | Personal protective services and security |
| 517 | Staff cyber café and call box and related workers |
| 519 | Other personal services workers n.e.c |
| 521 | Fashion and other models |
| 522 | Shop salespersons and demonstrators |
| 523 | Sellers miscellaneous items (textiles, footwear, clothing, hardware and household products stall and market |
| 524 | Bayam sellam |
| 525 | Sellers live animals and poultry products (eggs) |
| 526 | Sellers food from agricultural stall and market |
| 527 | Sellers food animal stall and market |
| 528 | Seller's stall or market food |
| 529 | Other n.e.c salespersons and demonstrators |
| 611 | Farmers and skilled workers of crops for market |
| 612 | Breeders and skilled workers for livestock markets and similar |
| 613 | Farmers and skilled workers polyculture and animal producers |
| 614 | Occupations forestage, palm wine tapper you raffia and similar workers |
| 615 | Fishery workers, hunters and trappers |
| 619 | Other farmers and workers skilled agricultural and fishery markets for |
| 621 | Farmers and skilled workers polyculture and animal producers |
| 629 | Other farmers and workers in agriculture and subsistence fishing |
| 711 | Miners, shotfirers and stonemasons |
| 712 | Construction workers (shell) and similar |
| 713 | Construction workers (finishes) and similar |
| 714 | Painters, building structure cleaners and related |
| 719 | Other craft and related trades workers mining and construction |
| 721 | Metal moulders, welders, sheet-metal workers, ironworkers and similar |
| 722 | Blacksmiths, toolmakers and related |
| 723 | Machinery mechanics and fitters |
| 724 | Mechanics and fitters electrical and electronic equipment |
| 729 | Other craft and related trades workers metallurgy, mechanical engineering and related n.e.c |
| 731 | Precision workers in metal and related materials |
| 732 | Potters, glass-makers and related |
| 733 | Handicraft workers in wood, textile, leather and related materials |
| 734 | Trades workers printing and related |
| 739 | Other craft and related workers in the precision engineering, crafts, printing and related |
| 741 | Trades workers food and allied |
| 742 | Artisans and workers woodworking, cabinet and similar |
| 743 | Artisans and trades workers textile and skillfully treated and |
| 744 | Trades workers work skins and leather shoe |
| 749 | Other craft and related trades workers n.e.c craft |
| 814 | Plant operators woodworking and papermaking |
| 816 | Plant operators and related energy |
| 823 | Drivers machines for manufacturing rubber products and plastic materials |
| 824 | Machine operators wood |
| 825 | Drivers printing machines, binding machines and paper machines |
| 827 | Machine operators for the manufacture of food and related products |
| 829 | Other machine operators and assembly workers |
| 831 | Locomotive engine drivers and related |
| 832 | Drivers of motor vehicles including taxi drivers and bus |
| 833 | Operators of mobile equipment and other agricultural mobile machinery |
| 834 | Deckhands and similar |
| 835 | Motorbike taxi drivers |
| 836 | Driver of motor skiff or paddle |
| 839 | Other vehicle drivers and heavy equipment lifting and maneuvering |
| 899 | Other operators not elsewhere classified |
| 911 | Street vendors and related |
| 912 | Shoe cleaning and other workers |
| 913 | Aids and other household helpers, cleaners and launderers |
| 914 | Personnel service building caretakers, window and related cleaners |
| 915 | Messengers, porters, doorkeepers, chargers in bus stations and allied workers |
| 916 | Garbage collectors and related laborers |
| 919 | Other unskilled services and sales |
| 921 | Labourers in agriculture, fishery and related |
| 929 | Other operations of the agriculture, fisheries and allied |
| 931 | Labourers in mining, construction and public works |
| 932 | Manufacturing laborers |
| 933 | Transport laborers and freight handlers |
| 939 | Other labourers in mining, construction and public works, manufacturing and transport n.e.c |
| 990 | Other profession, response suppressed |
| 998 | Professional activities not adequately defined or unclassifiable |
| 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
<svar v="CM05A503 CM05A504 CM05A505 CM05A506 CM05A507 CM05A508 CM05A509"><span class="h2">Questions (Questions 27-33) related to the economic activity are only ask to people 6 years old and older</span><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="CM05A503"><span class="em">27. Profession</span><br />The profession is a job that can only be done by a person with the required knowledge, generally conferred through a diploma or a training certificate: the diploma designates the type of work accomplished by an individual at in a given position.<br /><div class="i1">Q. What type of work did you/did _____ learn to do?</div><br /><br />If someone says they have never learned a vocation:<br /><div class="i1">-Ask him what he knows how to do?<br />-Write legibly on the dotted line the declared profession</div><br /></svar>
<p><svar a="all" v="CM05A503"><span class="em">27. Profession</span><br />The profession is a job that can only be done by a person with the required knowledge, generally conferred through a diploma or a training certificate: the diploma designates the type of work accomplished by an individual at in a given position.<br /><div class="i1">Q. What type of work did you/did _____ learn to do?</div><br /><br />If someone says they have never learned a vocation:<br /><div class="i1">-Ask him what he knows how to do?<br />-Write legibly on the dotted line the declared profession</div><br /></svar>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates a person's profession.
Universe
Cameroon 2005: Persons aged 6+ [discrepancies: type I trace, type II 36.6%]
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Education Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |