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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- FRA1968-H-H
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SAPHIR occupation (FR1968A_0439)
Data file: FRA1968-P-H
Overview
Valid:
0
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
212
End:
213
Width:
2
Range:
14 - 87
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]
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? ____
[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]
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 |
|---|---|
| 14 | Agricultural farming, fishermen |
| 21 | Artisans |
| 22 | Businessmen and employees |
| 23 | Business owners with 10 paid workers or more |
| 31 | Free-market professions |
| 33 | Executives of public functions |
| 34 | Teachers, professional scientists |
| 35 | Professional news, arts and shows |
| 37 | Executives of administrative and commercial businesses |
| 38 | Engineers of technical businesses |
| 42 | Teachers and other employees |
| 43 | Professional social health workers |
| 44 | Clergy, religious |
| 45 | Professional administration in public function |
| 46 | Professional administrative and commercial institutions |
| 47 | Technicians |
| 48 | Supervisors |
| 52 | Civil employees, service agents of public function |
| 53 | Police and military |
| 54 | Administrative employees |
| 55 | Business employees |
| 56 | Service personnel to individuals |
| 61 | Skilled industrial or artisanal workers |
| 66 | Skilled driver |
| 69 | Agricultural workers |
| 79 | Former active workers |
| 83 | Military reserve |
| 84 | High school and university students |
| 87 | Other inactive people |
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
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
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's SAPHIR socio-professional category.
SAPHIR variables were constructed by the French statistical office to provide consistent variables across censuses.
SAPHIR variables were constructed by the French statistical office to provide consistent variables across censuses.
Universe
All persons
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |