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General Population Census of 1968 - IPUMS Subset

France, 1968
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FRA_1968_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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INSEE (Institut National de la Statisque et des Etudes Economiques), Minnesota Population Center
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Occupation (FR1968A_0405)

Data file: FRA1968-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 163
End: 164
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Education and professional formation (for all persons born before January 1st, 1962)
[Applies to questions 8 - 11]



8. Are you currently a student?

[] Yes (Answer question 9)
[] No (Answer questions 10 and 11)

Do not answer "yes" unless you are taking classes (including professional or technical classes) or at the university for the normal duration of the school year.
If you are apprenticed under contract, if you are not taking any classes except for some professional classes part-time, or classes by correspondence for perfecting your skills, seasonal agricultural classes, etc. answer "no".



Professional activity (for all persons born before January 1st, 1954)
[Applies to questions 12- 18]



12. Main profession: Indicate the profession or the occupation which you are currently practicing (even if you are still only an apprentice or if you are working by helping a member of your family in his/her work.) A woman who is taking care of her home should answer "no profession".

____

Be specific: Examples: auto repair mechanic, clothing producer, steel worker, draftsman, electrical engineer, grain broker, wine-producer, driver of large trucks, swine breeder, hairdresser, shorthand typist, etc.



14. Do you practice your main profession declared in question 12 as:

[] 2 Owner, farmer, sharecropper.
[] 3 Member of a free-market profession
[] 4 Employer or self-employed: artisan, merchant, industrialist, etc. (self-employed, including managers of the S.A.R.L. [Société à responsabilité limitée] and people only working on commission).
[For any of the above options:]


Do you hire employees?
Do not count servants at home in your service. In agriculture, only count permanent paid workers.
[] Yes
How many?


[] 1 1 to 2
[] 3 3 to 5
[] 6 6 or more


[] 0 No


[] 5 Person working at home for one (or more) businesses.
[] 6 Apprenticed under contract.
[] 7 Paid worker : answer questions 15a, 15b or 15c below:




18. If you don't work anymore:

(You are, for example, retired from public service, a retired executive, old retired worker, former farmer, retired from business, etc.)
What is your main profession? ____
Categories
Value Category
0 Farmers
10 Agricultural employees
21 Industrialists
22 Artisans
23 Fishers
26 Whole-salers
27 Small merchanges
30 Free-market professions
32 Teachers, literary and scientific professions
33 Engineers
34 Master administrative executives
41 Instructors, diverse intellectual professions
42 Medical and social services
43 Technicians
44 Administrative executives
51 Office employees
53 Business employees
60 Supervisors
61 Skilled workers
63 Specialized unskilled workers
65 Miners
66 Boatmen and fishers
67 Apprenticed workers
68 Unskilled workers
70 Servants
71 Housewives
72 Other service staff
80 Artists
81 Clergy
82 Army and police
91 University students and other students
92 Military of the contingent
93 Former farmers (farmers and paid workers)
94 Retired from business
95 Retired from public service
96 Former paid employees from the private sector
97 People not working of age 17 or less
98 Other people not working between 17 to 64 years of age
99 Other people not working between 65 years of age or more
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
Question 12: Main profession.
Attentively read the explanations and the examples given on the individual forms, as well as the instructions hereafter.
Examples of bad answers not to accept in any situation [left column] / Comments [right column]
1) Bad answers because they aren't specific enough.
Employee, worker, building worker, engineer, executive, director / Indicate exactly the job of the person concerned, for example: salesperson at a department store, bank employee, lathe operator, chemical engineer, plasterer, expert forester, business director.
Government employee, SNCF employee, EDF employee / For government employees and public service employees, specify the rank or the job, for example: representative of the prefecture, clerk of the PTT, second class stationmaster, driver of a diesel locomotive, EDF dispatcher.
Merchant, industrialist, farmer, entrepreneur, craftsman, administrator / Answer, for example: retail grocer, wholesaler in pharmaceutical products, masonry entrepreneur, residential building director, movie theater employee
2) Bad answers because they are incomplete.
O.S., O.P., Qualified worker, team leader, foreman / these labels indicate the situation in the professional hierarchy, but do not give any information on the individual profession of the person concerned. On the other hand, the following answers are satisfactory:
O.S. (specialized worker) in rope or yarn winding, textile mill foreman



Question 14: Professional status.
Category 5: "Worker at home for a total of one or more businesses" does not allow for people who work at their home for their own business (artisans, sewers, stylists). This category applies on the other hand to people who do work at their home, often as they will, for the affairs of an industrial or commercial establishment who reimburses them for this. Such is the case, for example of some newspapers designers, of people working for clothing industries or performing secretarial work for the affairs of some administrations, etc.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's socio-professional category in detail.
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All persons

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