Census of Population of Ireland, 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Ireland, 1981

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IRL_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Statistics Office, IPUMS

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Socio-economic group (SEG) (IE1981A_SOCECON)

Data file: IRL1981_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 224

End: 225

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
00	Farmers, farmers relatives and farm managers
01	Other agricultural occupations and fishermen
02	Higher professional
03	Lower professional
04	Employers and managers
05	Salaried employees
06	Intermediate non-manual workers
07	Other non-manual workers
08	Skilled manual workers
09	Semi-skilled manual workers
10	Unskilled manual workers
98	Unknown

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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's socio-economic group (SEG), which is based on the person's current occupation, previous occupation or occupation of a family supporter.

Universe

Ireland 1981: All persons

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