Census of Population of Ireland, 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Ireland, 2006

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IRL_2006_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Statistics Office, IPUMS

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Social class (IE2006A_SOCCLASS)

Data file: IRL2006_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 253

End: 253

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="em">B. Person Form</span></p>

<p>27. If you are:</p>
<div class="i1">- working for payment or profit (Q26 box 1)<br />- unemployed (Q 26 box 3)<br />- retired (Q26 box 6)</div><p>Answer the following questions about your main job or your last main job if you are not currently employed. Otherwise, skip to Q34.

Categories

Value	Category
1	Professional workers
2	Managerial and technical
3	Non-manual
4	Skilled manual
5	Semi-skilled
6	Unskilled
7	All others gainfully occupied and 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.

Universe

Ireland 2006: Non-absent persons [Discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

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