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General Population Census of 1975 - IPUMS Subset

France, 1975
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INSEE (Institut National de la Statisque et des Etudes Economiques), Minnesota Population Center
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Occupation (FR1975A_0419)

Data file: FRA1975-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 178
End: 179
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
For all people 16 years of age or older
[Applies to questions 8 -18]



11. Main profession

Indicate the profession or the career that you currently practice
(even if you still only an apprentice or if you work by helping a member of your family in his or her profession). A woman who only takes care of her home will answer "without profession".


____


Be specific: Examples: mechanic (automobile repairman, clothing maker, carpenter in iron, fitter in central heating, building painter, industrial designer, electrical engineer, wine-grower, driver of heavy loads, shorthand typist, whole-sale drugs, etc.



13. Do you practice your main declared profession as:


[] 2 Farmer
[] 3 Member of a free-market profession
[] 4 Employer or self-employed worker: artisan, merchant, industrial worker, etc. (working for yourself, including managers of the S.A.R.L [Société à responsabilité limitée] and people not working except on commission)
[] 5 Working at home for yourself for one (or more) companies
[] 6 Apprenticed under contract
[] 7 Paid




14. For paid workers:


a. If you are a worker, specify the qualification of your current job:


[] 1 Unskilled or specialized laborer
[] 2 Specialized worker (OS1, OS2)
[] 3 Skilled worker or highly qualified (P1, P2, P3...)



b. If you are a state employee, from a local city or a public service (E.D.F. Electricité de France, S.N.C.F, Société nationale des chemins de fer etc.) or military by career, specify your rank:
Examples: principal administration agent, administrative secretary, stationmaster of the second class, etc.
____

c. If you are in a different situation, specify your hierarchical position:
Examples: supervisor, head farmer, head of a department store, business director, etc.
____




17. If you are currently without work and if you are looking for some:


a. For how long have you been looking for work?


[] 1 less than 3 months
[] 2 3 to less than 6 months
[] 3 6 months to less than a year
[] 4 one year or more



b. Have you already worked?


[] Yes
[] No



c. What is your career? ____




18. If you do not work anymore:

(You are, for example, retired from public service, a retired worker, retired executive, former farmer, retired from business, etc.)


What was your principal profession? ____
Categories
Value Category
0 Farmers
10 Agricultural employees
21 Industrial workers
22 Artisans
23 Fishers
26 Whole-sale merchants
27 Small merchants
30 Free professions
32 Professors, literary and scientifc professions
33 Engineers
34 Administrative executives
41 Instructors, diverse intellectual professions
42 Medical and social services
43 Technicians
44 Medium-level administrative executives
51 Office employees
53 Merchant employees
60 Supervisors
61 Skilled workers
63 Specialized unskilled workers
65 Miners
66 Boatment and fishermen
67 Apprenticed workers
68 Manoeuvres
70 House servants
71 Housewives
72 Other service personnel
80 Artists
81 Clergy
82 Army and police
91 High school and college students
92 Military of the contingent
93 Former farmers (farmer and workers)
94 Retired from business
95 Retired from the public sector
96 Former employees from the public sector
97 Non active people from 17 to 64 years of age
98 Other people not active from 17 to 64 years of age
99 Other people not active from 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
[Questions 8 - 18 are for persons age 16 or older]



Question 11: Main profession.
Attentively read the explanations and the examples given on the individual forms, as well as the instructions hereafter.
Note:
a) If a profession has been declared on question 11:
- make sure that one of the six boxes of question 13a has been checked, at least box 1 of question 12 has not been;
- make sure that the salaried people (answer 7 of question 13) have answered correctly questions 14a, 14b, or 14c ;
- make sure that question 16 has been correctly filled out (see question 16 page 57): especially make sure that questions 16a, 16b, and 16 are always filled out, even for people who work in an administrative service and especially for government employees.
b) If no profession has been declared for question 11 and if the person concerned is 16 or older:
Refer to questions 17 and 18 to see if there is an answer indicated there.
If none of questions 17 to 18 have received an answer, Make sure that is the real situation of the person concerned and:
- if there is no professional activity, mention in great detail "without profession" on question 11.
- if he currently practices a profession which he would have forgotten to declare it, ask him to answer questions 11 to 16 of his individual form.
[p.55]
Examples of bad answers not to accept in any situation. [left column] / Remarks [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. (ouvrier specialisé) in rope or yarn winding, textile mill foreman



Question 13: 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.
Paid managers should check box 7 even when they are partially reimbursed in the form of commiseration.



Question 14: Certification
Make sure that the people who have declared to be salaried on question 13 specify their certification, rank or hierarchical position on questions 14a, 14b or 14c, according to the situation.



Question 17: The case of the unemployed and those who are looking for work.
This question concerns all people having or having not already worked, who fulfill the following conditions simultaneously:
a) do not have a job:
b) are actively looking for work.
Do not apply to these people the label "unemployed" which is sometimes judged offensive and which has a slightly different connotation.

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Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's socio-professional category.
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