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The 1971 Census of Population, Occupation, Dwellings and Buildings of the German Democratic Republic - IPUMS Subset

Germany, 1971
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DEU_1971_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Central State Office for Statistics, IPUMS
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Social group (DE1971A_SOCGRP)

Data file: DEU1971_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 138
End: 138
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="DE71A427 DE71A428 DE71A432 DE71A435 DE71A436"><span class="em">Occupational information</span><br /><br />To be filled out for all working and gainfully employed persons, as well as retirees that are still in the labor process, but not for apprentices and students<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="DE71A427 DE71A428">8.c. Are you employed as:<br /><div class="i1">Mark applicable<br /><br />[] 1 Worker/employee<br />[] 2 Member of cooperative<br />[] 3 Freelance worker<br />[] 4 Self-employed<br />[] 5 Family worker</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="DE71A427 DE71A428 DE71A435 DE71A436"><span class="em">Question 8: Occupational data</span><br /><div class="i1">Question 8 should also be filled out by seasonal employees who are employed on census day. At present job seekers answer only questions 8b and 8c based on their last job.</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="DE71A427 DE71A428"><span class="em">Question 8c: Are you employed as:</span><br /><div class="i1">Only members and candidates of production cooperatives (agricultural production cooperative, production cooperative for handicrafts, horticultural production cooperative, production cooperative for working fishermen, fishery production cooperative) as well as councils of lawyers should be entered as cooperative members. Only persons that work in the firm of a family member without a legal working relationship and do not get taxable and social security-taxable income from a firm should be entered as "family worker". Also counted here are family members working exclusively in the personal home economy of an agricultural production cooperative member. Family members whose legal working relationship in the firm of a relative is recognized from the time sheet and income tax and social security contributions are entered as "worker/employee".</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Worker (blue- and white-collar)
2 Farmer in cooperative
3 Tradesman in cooperative
4 Commission trader
5 Freelance worker
6 Self employed
7 Other or not stated
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 individual's class of worker.
Universe
Germany 1971: All persons

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Concept
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