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1980 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 1980
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MYS_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS
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Principal occupation last week - 1 digit (MY1980A_OCC1)

Data file: MYS1980_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 221
End: 221
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">For persons 10 years of age and over</span>
<br /> [Questions 25-44b were asked of those who are 10 years old or over.]</p>

<p>[Questions 31-34 were asked of persons other than those who did not work for pay or profit, at least 1 day during the last 7 days, did not help in a family farm or business at least one day during the last 7 days, did not have any employment, work on farm, enterprise or other family enterprise to return to, and were not seeking work during the last 7 days.]</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MY80A428 MY80A429 MY80A430">32. What is your principal occupation? (Describe the nature of your work in two or more words) ________<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Professional, Technical and Related Workers
2 Administrative and Managerial Workers
3 Clerical and Related Workers
4 Sales Worker
5 Service Workers
6 Agricultural, Animal husbandry and forestry workers, fishermen and hunter
7 Production and Related Worker, transport equipment operator and labourers
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 principal occupation last week - 1 digit.
Universe
Malaysia 1980: Persons age 10+ who are employed, or active unemployed [discrepancies: none]

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