1999 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset
Vietnam, 1999
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Reference ID
VNM_1999_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 1999 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., IPUMS
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- VNM1999_PHC-H-H.dat
- VNM1999_PHC-P-H.dat
Occupation, 1 digit (VN1999A_OCC1)
Data file: VNM1999_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
224
End:
225
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar v="VN99A422 VN99A423 VN99A424 VN99A425 VN99A426 VN99A427 VN99A428 VN99A429 VN99A430 VN99A431 VN99A432 VN99A433"><span class="em">Persons born before 4/1986 (13 years old or over) answer the following questions:</span><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="VN99A427 VN99A428 VN99A429">17. What was the main job that (Name) performed during the last 12 months and what position did (Name) hold (if any)?<br /><div class="i1">____<br />____<br />____<br />(Specify)<br />_ _ _</div><br /></svar>
<p><svar a="all" v="VN99A427 VN99A428 VN99A429">17. What was the main job that (Name) performed during the last 12 months and what position did (Name) hold (if any)?<br /><div class="i1">____<br />____<br />____<br />(Specify)<br />_ _ _</div><br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 01 | Leader of the branches, administrative levels and units |
| 02 | Professionals |
| 03 | Technicians and associate professionals |
| 04 | Clerks |
| 05 | Services workers and shop and market sales workers |
| 06 | Skilled agricultural and fishery workers |
| 07 | Craft and related trades workers |
| 08 | Plant and machine operators and assemblers |
| 09 | Elementary occupations |
| 99 | 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
<svar v="VN99A422 VN99A423 VN99A424 VN99A425 VN99A426 VN99A427 VN99A428 VN99A429 VN99A430 VN99A431 VN99A432 VN99A433"><span class="em">Questions 13 to 18: Only ask persons who were born before April, 1986 (aged 13 years and older) </span>(Persons who were born in 1986 and do not have month of birth in question 4 should also answer these questions).<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="VN99A427 VN99A428 VN99A429"><span class="em">Question 17:</span> What was the main job that (name) performed during the last 12 months and what position did (name) hold (if any)?<br /><br />This question is only asked of persons who have code "1" in Question 16.<br /><br />The main job during the last 12 months is the job which occupies most of a person's total working time to generate income during the last 12 months before the census.<br /><br />Filling-in: interviewers should write name of the main job which respondent worked (the most time occupied) during the last 12 months before the census and position (if any) of that job. Interviewers should not fill in very general name of the job, such as "working in rice field", "worker", "professional", "government staff", "being hired", or "teacher", etc.<br /><br />Notes:<br /><br />For persons who are managers in institution or factory and persons who work for communist party or mass organizations (receiving salary for specialists), interviewers report their position and name of their work place, level of communist party position or mass organization, for example: director of Hanoi cake and candy factory, general director of Vietnam machine assembly company, head of district statistic department, district president, secretary of provincial communist party, president of provincial labor union, president of district women's union, etc.<br /><br />For persons who perform both professional and communist organization's or union's works (semi-specialization, not receiving bi-works salary), interviewers record their main job as their professional job and position (if any), and do not write position of his communist organization or union's work.<br /><br /><div class="i1">For example: a person is a head of human resource department at statistics bureau and secretary of the statistics bureau's communist party (semi-specialization, not receiving bi-works salary), interviewers record his main occupation as "head of human resource department".<br />A person grows rice paddy and is also secretary of village's communist party (semi-specialization, not receiving bi-works salary or only receiving allowance from commune/ward), interviewers report his/her main occupation as "growing rice paddy".</div><br /><br />For those who are working at commune/ward and performing other income-generating activities, and both jobs are not specialized (for example, a person is a head of the village and a collaborator for program of population and family planning), interviewers check the job which occupies most of his/her time during the last 12 months and fill in the question (in this example, if that person spent more time for the job as a collaborator for program of population and family planning, interviewers write down "collaborator for program of population and family planning").<br /><br />For those who perform religious activities, interviewers fill in their religious position, such as monk, bishop, missionary, etc.<br /></svar>
<p><svar a="all" v="VN99A427 VN99A428 VN99A429"><span class="em">Question 17:</span> What was the main job that (name) performed during the last 12 months and what position did (name) hold (if any)?<br /><br />This question is only asked of persons who have code "1" in Question 16.<br /><br />The main job during the last 12 months is the job which occupies most of a person's total working time to generate income during the last 12 months before the census.<br /><br />Filling-in: interviewers should write name of the main job which respondent worked (the most time occupied) during the last 12 months before the census and position (if any) of that job. Interviewers should not fill in very general name of the job, such as "working in rice field", "worker", "professional", "government staff", "being hired", or "teacher", etc.<br /><br />Notes:<br /><br />For persons who are managers in institution or factory and persons who work for communist party or mass organizations (receiving salary for specialists), interviewers report their position and name of their work place, level of communist party position or mass organization, for example: director of Hanoi cake and candy factory, general director of Vietnam machine assembly company, head of district statistic department, district president, secretary of provincial communist party, president of provincial labor union, president of district women's union, etc.<br /><br />For persons who perform both professional and communist organization's or union's works (semi-specialization, not receiving bi-works salary), interviewers record their main job as their professional job and position (if any), and do not write position of his communist organization or union's work.<br /><br /><div class="i1">For example: a person is a head of human resource department at statistics bureau and secretary of the statistics bureau's communist party (semi-specialization, not receiving bi-works salary), interviewers record his main occupation as "head of human resource department".<br />A person grows rice paddy and is also secretary of village's communist party (semi-specialization, not receiving bi-works salary or only receiving allowance from commune/ward), interviewers report his/her main occupation as "growing rice paddy".</div><br /><br />For those who are working at commune/ward and performing other income-generating activities, and both jobs are not specialized (for example, a person is a head of the village and a collaborator for program of population and family planning), interviewers check the job which occupies most of his/her time during the last 12 months and fill in the question (in this example, if that person spent more time for the job as a collaborator for program of population and family planning, interviewers write down "collaborator for program of population and family planning").<br /><br />For those who perform religious activities, interviewers fill in their religious position, such as monk, bishop, missionary, etc.<br /></svar>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the occupation of the person [1 digit].
Universe
Vietnam 1999: Working persons [discrepancies: none]
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |