Census of Population of Ireland, 2002 - IPUMS Subset

Ireland, 2002

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IRL_2002_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Statistics Office, IPUMS

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Social class (IE2002A_SOCCLASS)

Data file: IRL2002_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 243

End: 243

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Professional workers
2	Managerial and technical
3	Non-manual
4	Skilled manual
5	Semi-skilled
6	Unskilled
8	Unknown
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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's social class, which is based on the person's current occupation, previous occupation or occupation of a family supporter.

Universe

Ireland 2002: Persons present [discrepancies: none]

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