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Censo de Población y Viviendas, 1962 - IPUMS Subset

Paraguay, 1962
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PRY_1962_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses (DGEC), IPUMS
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Class of worker (PY1962A_CLASSWK)

Data file: PRY1962_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 188
End: 188
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">Occupational (economic) characteristics</span></p>

<p>For persons 12 years of age and older</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PY60A433">18. Employment status (occupational category): ____<br /><div class="i1">Only for those employed and unemployed. Mark only one box as appropriate. <br /><br />Employer: one who operates his own company and pays one or more employees or workers. Own-account worker: one who operates his own company without paid employees or workers. Employee (white-collar): a salaried employee of a boss whose work is primarily intellectual. Worker (manual laborer): one employed by the day or by salary, works for a boss, and whose job consists predominantly of physical activity. Family worker: one who, paid or unpaid, works at least two days out of the week for a family member. <br /><br />[] 1 Employer<br />[] 2 Own-account worker<br />[] 3 Employee<br />[] 4 Worker [manual laborer]<br />[] 5 Paid family worker<br />[] 6 Unpaid family worker</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Boss/employer
2 Own-account worker
3 White collar/managerial/office worker
4 Blue collar/manual laborer
5 Paid family worker
6 Unpaid family worker
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 class of worker.
Universe
Paraguay 1962: Persons age 12+ employed or unemployed [discrepancies: type I trace; type II 0.2%]

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