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Population Census; Building and Housing Census 1991 - IPUMS Subset

Austria, 1991
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AUT_1991_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Austrian Central Statistical Office, IPUMS
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Means of transport for (daily) commute (AT1991A_COMMUT6)

Data file: AUT1991_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 210
End: 210
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="AT91A436 AT91A437 AT91A438 AT91A439 AT91A440 AT91A441 AT91A442">[Questions 14 - 16 were asked of students currently attending school and people who were working]<br /></svar></p>

<p>16. Journey to workplace (where you go to work daily) or to school:</p>
<div class="i1">[] a. Return to this housing unit:</div><div class="i2">[] Daily<br />[] Not daily (e.g. weekly)</div><div class="i1">[] b. Transportation most frequently used (for the furthest distance covered) for your daily journey to your workplace (school):</div><div class="i2">[] No transportation, on foot<br />[] Car, motorcycle, moped<br />[] Train, suburban train<br />[] Tram, subway<br />[] Bus, trolley bus<br />[] Bicycle<br />[] Other (boat, taxi, etc.)</div><div class="i1">[] c. Expenditure of your time for your daily journey to your workplace (school) in minutes:</div><div class="i2">[] Up to 15<br />[] 16-30<br />[] 31-45<br />[] 46-60<br />[] More than 60</div><svar v="AT91A422 AT91A423 AT91A424 AT91A427 AT91A428 AT91A429 AT91A430 AT91A431 AT91A432 AT91A433 AT91A434 AT91A435 AT91A436 AT91A437 AT91A438 AT91A439 AT91A440 AT91A441 AT91A442"><span class="em">11 to 16</span>. If several employments exist, please answer questions 11 to 16 for the job with the most working time. In case of a change of employment at the time of the census, please answer questions 11 to 16 for the situation on May 15, 1991. Persons who <span class="em">both attend a school and have an occupation</span> answer questions 11 to 16, depending on whether they have defined themselves as "employed" or as "pupil, student" in question 10.<br /><br />11. <span class="em">Status in employment</span>: <span class="em">workers</span> mark "skilled worker", "semi-skilled worker" or "unskilled worker", depending on their collective labor agreement placement in the business they are employed in.<br />A person is <span class="em">self-employed</span> if he/she is not an employee but instead has a profession in his/her own account.<br />With/without employee: depending whether persons receiving wages or salaries are employed in the business or not. Self-employed persons whose only employees are family members who are not being formally paid, please mark "without employees".<br /><span class="em">Unpaid workers in a family business</span> are working in the business of a family member without being formally paid.<br /><br />12. <span class="em">Exact description of occupation</span>: Your statements will be categorized in one of 300 different occupational groups, and we therefore ask you to be as precise as possible in describing your occupational activity.<br /><br />Examples of precise description of occupation:<br /><br /><div class="i1">Gas welder for steel construction parts<br />Operator of data processing machines<br />Adjuster of men's shirts<br />Plexiglas cutter<br />Operator of plastic processing machines<br />Foreman of a dip-varnishing business<br />Electrician for high-tension transmission lines<br />Scientific researcher in the field of environmental protection</div><br /><br />13. <span class="em">Branch of economic activity of the company or office</span>: the branch of economic activity states to which branch the business or which you are working belongs to. Public service employees enter "federal administration", "provincial administration" or "municipal administration" depending on which government unit they are employed with.<br /><br />14. <span class="em">Name of company or type of school you are presently attending</span>: persons with several employers, cleaners) enter "several employers".<br /><br />15 and 16. <span class="em">Address and journey to workplace or school</span>: These questions are designed to describe your journey from your housing unit to your workplace or school. Teachers therefore state the school where they are teaching (school they are based at) and not e.g. School Inspection Authority.<br />Persons working in their house or on the same piece of property (e.g. janitors, farmers, homeworkers) or who live in the school building, mark the box "this house" for questions 15; these persons skip question 16.<br />If the workplace (school) is abroad, please state which country.<br />Persons with changing workplace (e.g. cleaning women, constructions workers) answer question 15 and 16 in accordance with the situation on May 15, 1991.<br />Persons who marked "not daily" in question 16a) can skip parts b and c.<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 None (on foot)
2 Motor vehicle, motor bike
3 Train, suburban train
4 Tram, subway
5 Bus, trolley bus
6 Bicycle
7 Other
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 means of the transportation for daily commute.
Universe
Austria 1991: Persons age 6+ who either work or attend school daily [discrepancies: none]

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