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VI National Population and Housing Census, 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 1981
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DOM_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), IPUMS
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Status in employment (DO1981A_CLASSWKR)

Data file: DOM1981_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 288
End: 288
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">For individuals 10 years of age and older</span>[Applies to questions 51-64.]</p>

<p>62. In this job are or were you a:</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Public sector employee<br />[] 2 Private sector employee<br />[] 3 Employer or owner<br />[] 4 Own-account worker<br />[] 5 Unpaid family worker<br />[] 6 Worker in a family home<br />[] 9 Other (specify) ____</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Public sector employee
2 Private sector employee
3 Employer or owner
4 Self employed
5 Unpaid family worker
6 Worker in a family home
8 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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="em">For persons 10 years of age and older</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Question 62:</span> In this occupation, were you...?</p>

<p>The options are read to the informant and the corresponding circle is filled in, according to the answer.</p>

<p>When "Other" is filled in, the enumerator should specify.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person’s status in the company they currently or most recently worked for.
Universe
Dominican Republic 1981: Persons age 10+ who worked or received pay or performed unpaid work last week or ever performed paid work [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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