General Population Census of 1962 - IPUMS Subset

France, 1962

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FRA_1962_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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INSEE (Institut National de la Statisque et des Etudes Economiques), IPUMS

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Occupation (FR1962A_OCC)

Data file: FRA1962_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 196

End: 197

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar v="FR62A410 FR62A411 FR62A413 FR62A415 FR62A421 FR62A427 FR62A429 FR62A430">Education and professional training (For all persons born before January 1, 1952) [Applies to questions 8 - 10] </svar>

<svar a="all" v="FR62A415 FR62A421 FR62A427 FR62A429">8. Are you currently a student? <div class="i1">[] Yes. Answer questions 9a, b, and c. [] No. Go directly to question number 10.</div> Do not answer "yes" unless you are taking courses from a general educational establishment, either professional or technical, or from a university, for the duration of the school year. 9a. Name and address of the school or university: <div class="i1">____</div> 9b. Nature of the classes you are taking: <div class="i1">____</div> Examples: primary, modern or classical secondary [secondaire moderne ou classique], technical, higher, 2nd degree agricultural [agricole du 2eme degre], etc. 9c. Designation of your class, section or specialty: <div class="i1">____</div> Examples: 3rd modern, 4th technical, M.P.C., etc. </svar>

<svar a="FR62A413" v="FR62A413 FR62A414 FR62A415 FR62A416 FR62A417 FR62A424 FR62A427 FR62A428 FR62A429 FR62A433">Professional Activity (For all persons born before January 1, 1948) [Applies to questions 11 - 16] If you are currently without work and you are looking for work, go directly to question 16. If you are no longer working, go directly to question 17. </svar>

<svar a="FR62A427 FR62A429" v="FR62A415 FR62A427 FR62A429">11. Principal Profession. Indicate your current occupation or job. (even if you are still just an apprentice or if you work helping a family member in his/her occupation.) A woman taking care of only her own household should answer "without profession." <div class="i1">____</div> Be specific; examples: Cashier accountant, automobile repair mechanic, hot roller [lamineur chaud], worker in metal carpentry, truck drivers carrying heavy loads, female machinist in production work [mecanicienne en confection], mechanical designer, grain broker, wine grower, horticulturalist, shepherd, etc. </svar>

<svar v="FR62A415 FR62A416 FR62A428 FR62A429">13. Do you practice your declared profession in question 11 as: <div class="i1">[] A paid employee -- answer questions 14a, b and c and question 15) [] Someone who works out of his/her home [] An apprentice under contract -- [If you checked either of the two above options,] skip to question 15 [] Landowning farmer, farmer, tenant farmer [] Professional [] Employer or independent worker: craftsman, shop-keeper, etc. (working independently, including managers who are majority shareholders of S.A.R.L. [gerants majoritaires de S.A.R.L] and persons working strictly on commission). -- [If you check any of the three above options,] skip to question 15 and answer:</div> <div class="i2">Do you have paid employees (do not count paid household help. In agriculture, count only permanent paid employees) [] yes. How many? ____ [] no</div> </svar>

<svar a="FR62A417" v="FR62A415 FR62A417">14a. For workers, specify the skill level [qualification] of your current employment: <div class="i1">[] 1 Non-specialized farm laborer [] 2 Specialized agricultural worker [] 3 General laborer or specialized laborer [manoeuvre ou manoeuvre specialise] [] 4 Semi-skilled worker [ouvrier specialise] (OS1, OS2) [] 5 Skilled or highly-skilled worker (P1, O2, P3...).</div> </svar>

<svar v="FR62A415">14c. For other paid employees, indicate your position: Examples: foreman, overseer, sales director, farm manager, etc <div class="i1">____</div> </svar>

<svar v="FR62A415 FR62A427 FR62A429">17. For persons who no longer work. Retired from public service, retired executives/managers, workers who have reached the age of retirement, persons no longer working in business, etc. <div class="i1">What was your principal occupation? ____</div> </svar>

Categories

Value	Category
00	Farmers
10	Paid farm workers
21	Industrial workers
22	Artisans
23	Fishers
26	Wholesale merchants
27	Smaller merchants
30	Free-market professions
32	Professors, literary and scientific professions
33	Engineers
34	Administrative executives
41	Instructors, diverse intellectual professions
42	Medical and social services
43	Technicians
44	Administrative secretaries
51	Office employees
53	Business employees
60	Supervisors
61	Skilled workers
63	Specialized workers
65	Miners
66	Mariners and fishers
67	Apprenticed workers
68	Laborers
70	Servants
71	Housewives
72	Other service personnel
80	Artists
81	Clergy
82	Army and police
91	Students
92	Soldiers of the contingent
93	Former farmers (farms and workers)
94	Retired from business
95	Retired from the public sector
96	Former workers of the private sector
99	Other nonactive people (includes persons age 14 or less)

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="FR62A414 FR62A415 FR62A416 FR62A427 FR62A428 FR62A429">Questions 11 through 17 The questions on professional activity are especially important. You should check carefully to make sure they are filled out carefully Question 11: This question is of capital importance. It is impossible to be too specific in this category. Read carefully the following explanations and the examples given on the individual report [bulletin individuel], as well as the following list: Examples of inadequate answers which should not be accepted under any circumstance and comments <div class="i1">1. Answers which are inadequate because they are not specific enough:</div> <div class="i2">Employee Worker Engineer</div> <div class="i3">Indicate exactly the occupation of the person in question. For example: department- store salesperson, metal turner, chemical engineer.</div> <div class="i2">Civil Servant Railroad employee Gas company worker</div> <div class="i3">Specify the rank or job of civil servants and employees of public services. For example: accounting and order clerk, combined- use railroad agent [facteur mixte S.N.C.F.].</div> <div class="i2">Shopkeeper Manufacturer Craftsman Administrator</div> <div class="i3">Answer in this way, for example: retail grocer, automobile repair mechanic, director of a noodle factory.</div> <div class="i1">2. Answers which are inadequate because they are incomplete:</div> <div class="i2">O.S.2. O.P. Qualified laborer Team leader Foreman</div> <div class="i1">The above indicate the professional rank, but do not give the individual occupation.</div> [p.25] Question 12 - Unpaid workers who help another person in his/her job It may sometime happen that certain persons - above all, women - work helping another person in his/her job without receiving any pay for their work. These persons should answer "yes" to question 12, even if they only work as such on a part- time basis. This question concerns, for example, the wife of a farmer who participates in farm work, or the wife or daughter of a shopkeeper who spends a few hours a day at the shop as a salesperson or at the cash register. Question 13 - Household employee. This category is not intended for persons who are self- employed and work at home (craftsmen, seamstresses, milliners). It applies only to persons who work at home, often on a piecework basis, for an industrial or commercial establishment which pays them on this basis. Such is the case, for example, of certain designers for fashion magazines, persons who work for design houses, etc. If these persons have several employers at the same time, indicate in question 15 which is their principal employer. </svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the respondent's socio-professional (occupational) category in detail.

Universe

France 1962: All persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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