X Recenseamento Geral do Brasil. Censo Demográfico 1991. - IPUMS Subset

Brazil, 1990

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BRA_1991_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, IPUMS

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Class of worker (BR1991A_CLASSWK)

Data file: BRA1991_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 358

End: 359

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="BR91A453">49. Position in the establishment, organization, institution, etc. declared in question 31 <div class="i1">[] 1 migrant agricultural worker Share cropper: [] 2 employed [] 3 self-employed Domestic worker: [] 4 employed [] 5 self-employed [] 6 employed in private sector Employed in Public Sector: [] 7 public servant [] 8 state employee [] 9 self-employed [] 10 employer [] 11 without remuneration</div> </svar>

Categories

Value	Category
00	NIU (not in universe)
01	Migrant farm worker
02	Sharecropper - employee
03	Sharecropper - self-employed
04	Domestic worker - employee
05	Domestic worker - self-employed
06	Private sector employee
07	Public sector employee - government
08	Public sector employee - state-owned company
09	Self-employed
10	Employer
11	No income

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 a="all" v="BR91A453">Question 49 - Relationship of work or the position of the occupation in the establishment, business, institution, etc., declared in question 48 This item investigates the position occupied by the person or the labor relationship. Mark: <div class="i1">1 - Migrant farm worker - a person without a steady job who works in one or more establishments for farming, cattle raising or plant extraction paid by the task, day or hour, who offers his or her services directly to the person responsible for the establishment, receiving payment for such work, or when contracted or recruited by a middleman, receiving the payment from this latter. Depending on the region, migrant workers are also known as Illegals, Bóias-frias, Calungas, Turmeiros, etc.; Sharecropper (parceiro ou meeiro) - a person who is engaged in or exercises an economic activity (farming, cattle raising, plant extraction, fishing or gold mining) and receives part of the production for the work or pays part of the production for the use of the land, boat or per section of gold mining. According to the [degree of] autonomy, mark: 2 Sharecropper - Employed - for persons, helped or not by another, non-remunerated, resident of the household who do not have autonomy regarding the person who has assigned the partnership (may only plant what has been determined); 3 - Sharecropper - Self-employed - for persons helped or not by another, non-remunerated, resident of the household, and has autonomy in the relation to the person who has assigned the partnership (may plant whatever he or she considers most convenient); NOTE: consider as an employer a sharecropper who works with the help of employees. Domestic worker - a person who does remunerated domestic work at the home of an employer. As the case may be, mark: 4 - Domestic worker - Employee - for persons who do daily domestic work for a single employer, whether or not he or she sleeps at the employer's house, usually paid monthly, as is the case of a cook, housemaid, nursemaid, etc.; 5 - Domestic worker - Self-employed - for persons who do remunerated domestic work usually for more [p. 86] than one employer, not working every day and generally being paid for the days actually worked, is as the case of cleaning women, laundresses, ironing women, maids paid by the day, etc.; 6 - Employee in the private sector - for persons who work for a company, firm, business, institution, etc., limited liability company, corporation, quota company, open capital company, etc. Note that companies whose main shareholder is the government (federal, state or municipal) are not considered private companies; Employee of the public sector - a person who works for an organ or company of direct public administration, autonomous government agency, foundation, or public company of mixed ownership of which the government is the single or main shareholder. As the case may be, mark: 7 - Public employee - for persons who work for the government, in direct administration, an autonomous government agency or a foundation under the Statute of Public Employees or the Labor Code (CLT). Included in this case are teachers, physicians, nurses, policemen and firemen who work in the public school, health or security system as well as employees in technical, bureaucratic and manual occupations who work in ministries, state or municipal departments, or autonomous government agencies and foundations, such as the Brazilian Census Office (IBGE), FUNABEM, etc.; 8 - Employee of the public sector - in a government-owned company - for persons who work in a public company or company of joint public and private ownership whose employment bond is usually governed by the CLT and in some cases may also be governed by the Statute of Public Employees, such as Banco do Brasil, Banco do Estado, Banco da Amazônia, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, ELETROBRÁS, EMBRAER, PETROBRAS, Rede Ferroviária Federal (RFFSA), SERPRO, etc.; 9 - Self-employed - for persons who work individually or with the help of a non-remunerated resident of the household; 10 - Employer - for persons who are engaged in an economic activity with the help of one or more employees; and 11 - Without remuneration - a person who exercises an economic activity without remuneration and works at least 15 hours per week helping a member of the household or who helps a religious or charitable institution.</div> [p. 87] Note: Priests, Church Ministers, Rabbis, Friars and Nuns will be considered employees when they receive monetary remuneration. If they receive only benefits, they will be classified as without remuneration. </svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the position of the occupation in the establishment the person worked regularly in during the last 12 months or part of that time.

Universe

Brazil 1991: Persons age 10+ who worked any time between September 1, 1989 and August 31, 1990 [Discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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