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National Population Housing Census 1971 - IPUMS Subset

Greece, 1971
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National Statistical Service of Greece, IPUMS
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Employment status previous week (GR1971A_EMPSTAT)

Data file: GRC1971_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 198
End: 198
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="GR71A413 GR71A414 GR71A415 GR71A416 GR71A417 GR71A418 GR71A419 GR71A420 GR71A421 GR71A422 GR71A423"><span class="em">The following questions 13-24 should only be completed for persons born in 1960 or earlier.</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><span class="em">The following questions (13-16) refer to the person's usual occupation during the last twelve months (March 1970-February 1971).</span></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="GR71A414"><span class="h3">15. What was his/her occupational status in the establishment, farm, enterprise, or service where he/she was working?</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Employer<br />[] 2 Self-employed<br />[] 3 Assistant in the family business<br />[] 4 Employee or wage-earner</div><br /><br /><span class="h3">16. If he/she is not usually working, what is the reason?</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Pupil<br />[] 2 Student<br />[] 3 Household activities<br />[] 4 Sickness or disability<br />[] 5 Conscript<br />[] 6 Other reason</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Working
2 Unemployed (old)
3 Newly unemployed
4 Pupil
5 Student
6 Household activities
7 Sickness or disability
8 Other cases and no answer
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">Questions 13-16, Usual occupation during the last twelve months (March 1970-February 1971)</span></p>

<p>148. Questions 13-24 should only be completed only for persons of age 10 and more.</p>

<p>[Omitted, definitions and instructions]</p>

<p>149. An individual is to be considered as working at if he has a job that provides his and the household's livelihood. That is, that the individual is working in order to profit, or for pay (salary, a day's wages, contract work) or assist in the family business even without pay apart from his livelihood as a member of the family.</p>

<p>150. Working individuals may be distinguished in two categories: Those that are always working at the same job and those that that are working in various jobs.</p>

<p>151. Usual occupation is the work that the individual is specialized or is working for the most part of the year. E.g. tailor, shoe-maker, builder, miner, loader, tobacco worker, land worker etc.</p>

<p><span class="em">Question 15, Occupational status</span></p>

<p>167. Employer is considered the owner of an establishment (either by himself or with partners) and is employing salaried or wage earning staff.</p>

<p>168. Self-employed is the one that does not employ salaried or wage earning staff apart maybe a member of his family without pay.</p>

<p>169. Assistant in the family business is the family member working in the family business without pay, except his livelihood.</p>

<p>170. Employee or wage earner is the person who for his work is having a salary or a day's wage or by contract.</p>

<p>The employee or wage earner that works on contract but has the materials is considered as employer (if he employs staff) or self-employed (if not employing staff).</p>

<p>Employee is considered as well the one working for percentages on sales but the one working for percentages on profit is considered as businessman.</p>

<p><span class="pg">[p. 49]</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Question 16, Reason for not working</span> [omitted]

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the employment status during the previous week.
Universe
Greece 1971: Persons born in 1960 or before [discrepancies: none].

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var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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