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Censo Nacional de Población y Viviendas,1992 - IPUMS Subset

Paraguay, 1992
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PRY_1992_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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General Directorate of Statistics, Surveys, and Censuses (DGEEC), IPUMS
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Class of worker (PY1992A_CLASSWK)

Data file: PRY1992_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 242
End: 242
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Section IV. Population information</span></p>

<p>[Questions 15 through 17 were asked persons 10 years and over who worked, did not work but were employed or looking for work]</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PY92A428">15. What is (or was) your principal occupation in your job? ____<br /><div class="i1">Examples: Dressmaker, secretary, driver, shoemaker, salesman, farmer, bricklayer, electrician, doctor, etc. (If more the one occupation, write the one that produced the greater income.)</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PY92A429">16. In this job, are (or were) you a:<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 (White-collar) employee<br />[] 2 Manual or day laborer<br />[] 3 Owner or employer<br />[] 4 Own-account or independent worker<br />[] 5 Unpaid family worker<br />[] 6 Domestic employee</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 White collar (employee, clerk, office worker, manager)
2 Blue collar (manual laborer) or day laborer
3 Owner or boss
4 Independent or own-account worker
5 Unpaid family worker
6 Domestic employee
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.
Interviewer instructions
Question 16: In this work, you are (or were)?</p>

<p>16. In this work you are (or were)?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Employee<br />[] Worker or day laborer<br />[] Boss or employer<br />[] Self-employed or independent worker<br />[] Un-paid family member<br />[] Domestic employee</div><svar a="all" v="PY92A429">Take the following definitions into account:<br /><br />Employee: The person whose occupation predominates the intellectual force over the physical, and who works for a payment, salary or commission, for a boss or employer (whether public or private). The following are employees: the managers, directors, secretaries, office personnel, teachers, nurses, etc.<br /><br />Worker or day laborer: the person who carries out an occupation that is predominantly physical, through shifts, monthly, monthly, weekly or contract pay, "for tips" or "in kind". Included in this group are construction laborers, overseers, patio or farm hands, milkers, chauffeurs, hotel cooks, in addition, it includes farmers who work outside of their own land.<br /><br />Boss or employer: This is the person who exploits his/her own economic business, having one or more paid workers (employees or workers) without including domestic employees.<br /><br />Self-employed or independent worker: The person who exploits his/her own company or business or who practices a profession or occupation on his/her own account without having an employer nor paid worker under his/her care.<br /><br />Unpaid family worker: This is the person who works more than two houses a day or more than fifteen hours a week in a company or business that is exploited by a member of his/her family without receiving any payment for his/her work.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[page] 32</span><br /><br />Domestic employee: This is the person in charge of household tasks, with pay. Example: cook, maid, nanny, gardener who earns a salary and others.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable refers to the status of an economically active person with respect to his or her employment-- that is whether he or she is the employer, an employee, a domestic worker, an unpaid family worker, or is self-employed.
Universe
Paraguay 1992: Persons 10+ who worked, did not work but were employed, or looked for work [discrepancies: type I 0.1%; type II none]

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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