The United Republic of Tanzania Population and Housing Census 2002 - IPUMS Subset
Tanzania, 2002
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Occupation last week (TZ2002A_0420)
Data file: TZA2002-P-H
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Valid:
0
Invalid:
0
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Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
206
End:
207
Width:
2
Range:
-
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Questions and instructions
Literal question
D. Economic activity
For persons age 5 and older
[Questions 16-20.]
19. Occupation
What type of work did [respondent] do for the last seven days?
Write the appropriate code.
_ _
For persons age 5 and older
[Questions 16-20.]
19. Occupation
What type of work did [respondent] do for the last seven days?
Write the appropriate code.
_ _
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | Legislators, administrators |
| 2 | Professional |
| 3 | Technicians and associate professionals |
| 4 | Clerks |
| 5 | Small business managers |
| 6 | Service workers, shop and stall sales workers |
| 7 | Street vendors and related workers |
| 8 | Crafts and related workers |
| 9 | Farmers |
| 10 | Livestock keepers |
| 11 | Fishermen |
| 12 | Plant, machine operators and assemblers including drivers |
| 13 | Elementary occupations |
| 96 | Other occupation not specified |
| 98 | Unknown |
| 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
D. Employment: For people of age five and above
This part has five questions (question 16-20) which have to be answered by people of age 5 and above. For census purposes, a job is any economic activity, either if you get paid, make profit, do barter trade, or for domestic use. Housework is not regarded as a job except looking for firewood and fetching water from a source which is far from the respondent's living place. Housework includes laundry works, cleaning, cooking, etc. The housework mentioned above will be considered as economic activities if they are paid for. A house maid doing these works should be considered as employed.
Question 19: What major activity did you do in the past 7 days?
[Those with codes between "01" and "06" in question 17]
This question is answered by those who did economic activities for the past 7 days.
Codes used in this question are as follows:
1. Administrator, managers and law makers = 01
Law makers, administrators, and managers are people who take the highest decisions and policies, laws, and orders of a country, region and street/village authorities or law making body; they plan, instruct, and supervise their implementation; they represent the government or work on its behalf, or do such responsibilities on behalf of a political party or other specific group and ensure the safety of citizens.
This group involves the following:
i. Leaders of political party
ii. Religious leaders and other volunteering institutions
iii. Government executives and administrators
iv. Directors and managers
v. Law makers (members of the parliament, and councilors)
[p. 45]
vi. Administrators of major institutions
vii. Village leaders
viii. Government leaders (central government and local government)
2. Professionals (with degree and advanced diploma) = 02
These include all people whose work always involve a lot of brains and usually need severe training, or people whose work need experience and skills. These professionals are those with degrees and advance diplomas.
These groups are as follows:
i. Scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. This group includes:
Engineers (civil, marine, electronic, etc.)
Chemists
Weather forecasters
Geologists
Architects
Surveyors
Computer scientist
Statisticians
Mathematicians and those of that kind
ii. Biologists and health professionals.
Biologists, botanist, zoologists, etc.
Bacteriologists
Agronomists
Doctors
Dentists
Veterinary doctors
Pharmacists
Nutrition specialists
Nurses with advanced diploma or degree
Health inspectors with advanced diploma or degree
iii. Teachers
University and college lecturers (professors, lecturers, etc.)
Secondary school teachers with advanced diploma or degree
Education inspectors with advanced diploma or degree
[p. 46]
iv. Business, sociology, and the related.
Accountants with advanced diploma or degree
Information officers and library officers with advanced diploma or degree
Psychologists
Sociology professionals
Historians
Translators
Archivists and curators
Economists
Planning and economic officers with advanced diploma or degree
v. Law professionals.
Lawyers
Judges
Judges with advanced diploma or degree
vi. Other professions.
3. Technicians and associate professionals = 03
Technicians and associate professionals do professional work which needs expert knowledge. Assisting professionals are those with normal certificates and professional skills.
This group involves the following:
i. Assistant scientists and general level technicians
ii. Assistant computer scientists
iii. Optical and electronic equipment professionals
iv. Aircraft and ship tower controllers and technicians
v. Building, industrial safety, health and standard inspectors
vi. Other assistant professions.
Assistants in finances and sales
Securities and finance dealers and brokers
Insurance agents
Real estate agents
Travel agents
Business and technical representatives
Large institution agents
Appraisers and evaluators
Auctioneers
Other finance and sales assistants
[p. 47]
Trade brokers and business services agents
Trade brokers
Clearing and forwarding agents
Other brokers and business services agents
Assistant administrators
Assistant administrators and similar occupations
Assistants in law matters and business
Bookkeepers
Assistant statisticians and mathematicians
Land and water transport supervisors
Other administrative assistants
Government professional assistants
Customs officers
Tax officers
Railway and air transport supervisors
License providers
Protective services officials and detectives
Other assistant government officials
Assistants of community services professionals
Community services officials and their assistants
Welfare official assistant
Community development official assistant
Assistants of institutions
Culture centre worker, associate professional
Welfare worker, delinquency, associate professional
Psychiatric social work associate professional
Refugee settlement assistant
Creative and performing arts, and artistic, entertainment and sports associate professionals
Handcrafts, painters and similar occupations
Authors, musicians and singers
Designers
Movie directors and actors, on stage, and others
Radio and television presenters and others
[p. 48]
Sports people and others
Religious leaders' assistants
Non-ordained religious associate professionals
vii. Teachers
Primary school teachers
Nursery school teachers
Other teachers with skills
viii. Science and health associates professionals
Laboratory assistants
Agriculture and forestry/fishing assistants
Other medical assistants (medical assistants, RMA, etc.)
Mid-wives and nurses with skills
ix. Traditional healers of all types
x. Other with several skills in service provision
4. Clerks = 04
Clerk and record keepers, arrange, maintain, and release information related to the work, deal with financial and statistical statements, deal with clerical duties which involves customers monetary issues, transport planning, business information, and appointments.
Their work also include running of the office, short hand writing, typing, and running different office machines, maintain financial and statistical statements.
Occupations in this category include the following groups:
i. Personal secretaries, telephone operators, and assistant registry clerks
Personal secretaries
Typists and short-hand writers
Typists using computer and other operators
Data entry clerks
Arithmetic machine operators
Registry clerks
Transport clerks
ii. Accounts clerks
Accounting clerks and bookkeepers
Statistical and financial clerks
[p. 49]
iii. Clerks who keep records of equipments and transport.
Stores clerks
Manufacturing clerks
Transport clerks
Other related activities
iv. Library, document transport clerks, and others
Library clerks
Document transporters and sorting clerks
Coding, proof reading, and related clerks
v. Service providing clerks
a) Cashiers, tellers
Cashiers
Tellers and other counter clerks
Debt collector
b) News reporting clerks and phone operators
Clerks in the transport sector
Reception clerks
Phone operators
5. Managers and supervisors of small scale business = 05
Small scale business managers are people who run their own business or those who supervise work on behalf of the business owners. Mostly these are long term employees and not laborers. There should only be one manager or supervisor. This group compiles of all kinds of businesses.
6. Service providers and sellers in shops, markets, and permanent stalls = 6
Service providers and shop sellers provide services related to transport, housing maintenance, hotel, personal services, and prevention against fire and other disasters; or sellers and auctioneers of goods in retail and wholesale shops and other places; includes also fashion models. Therefore, duties usually performed by workers in this group include personal services which include the following: transport arrangements, housing maintenance, provision of food and beverages, personal services, etc.
[p. 50]
Those included in this group are as follows:
Personal service providers
i. Supervisors of transport services
Airplane attendants
Conductors of transport vehicles
Passenger directors and others
ii. Housing maintenance staff and restaurant workers
House Stewarts and housekeepers
Cooks
Hotel attendants and bar workers
iii. Housekeepers and house workers in coffee shops
Personal housekeepers
Cooks
Housemaids
iv. Personal service providers
Baby sitters
Personal nurses and other health service providers
Other personal service providers
v. Astrologers and psychics and others of that kind
Astrologers and others of that kind
Psychics, palm readers, and others of that kind
vi. Security service providers
Firemen
Police officers
Soldiers
Security guards
Others who provide security services
vii. Sellers, models, and demonstrators
Demonstrators
Sellers in the market
Designers
Barbers and beauticians
7. Streets small scale retailers = 7
This includes all business people in the streets selling any kind of goods; they must be differentiated with those with code 06.
[p. 51]
8. Normal technicians and handcraft workers = 08
These are technicians with ordinary knowledge and most of the times are trained at work. Laborers who help in building are not to be included as technicians. All professional technicians are to be included in code 03. Remember that those who make baskets, carpets, etc., are to be included in this code. Technicians and others of those kind use resources, make and mend things, build, maintain, and make buildings, roads, machine, and other things. These works are done using hands or hand driven machines which reduce the energy used or time taken or increasing the quality of the services/product.
The works done by this group include processing raw material, building, doing maintenance and fixing of buildings, metal smelting, fitting, making electronic machines, making wooden things, clothes or leather. Supervisors of workers are also included.
This group includes the following:
A. Construction workers and miners
This group includes miners from under or above the ground and in open mines; stone carvers and cutters for construction and other works; building, maintaining, and fixing houses and other buildings. Stones for gravel are not to be included in this group.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
[p. 52]
B. Machine and metal mechanics
Works done by machine and metal mechanics include welding, making metal frames, joining metals, making metal machines, making electronic machines. Supervisors and these workers are included here.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
[p. 53]
C. Verifiers, handcrafts, printing, and others
Works done by people in this group include repairing and verifying tools, making and repairing musical instruments, making glass products, pots and others, mineral ornaments, and others, handcraft works using wood, cloth, skin, and other things of that kind; planning how to print using hands or machine; prepare the tools to be used in printing on paper and on other material; printing of books; also employees' supervisors are included.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
Verifiers of metal, diamond, plastic, paper tools, and others who are related to these
Employees, supervisors in cutting and shinning of diamond and others related to these, tool verifiers
Makers of verifying and renovating tools
Makers of music tools
Those who make and prepare diamond and other minerals
Verifiers of metal, diamond, plastic, paper, and other materials related to these
Makers of pots mirrors and other related
Employees' supervisors in the making of pots and mirrors
Makers of pots and other pottery tools
Makers and cutters of mirrors
Makers of mirror tools and artists drawing on stones/metals/glass engravers and etchers
Those making and decorating pottery tools and others related to these
[pg.54]
Makers of tools from wood, clothes, skin, and other related tools
Supervisors of employees in the making of handmade tools
Makers of tools from wood and other related tools
Cloth makers and other related tools
Makers of tools from palm tree leaves and other related tools
Publishers and other related workers
Publishing supervisors and other related workers
Publishers and those who prepare publishing work
Local publishers and publishers using electronic machines
Printing engravers and etchers, except photo engravers
Photo engravers
Those making books and other related workers
Silk screen, block, and textile printers
All other publishers
D. Other related groups
The work done by this group is together with processing of meat, fish, grains, fruits, and vegetables for human and animal consumption; dealing with and processing traditional threads, skin; making and modifying commodities made by wood, cloth or skin. Also supervisors of these works are included.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
9. Peasants and farmers = 09
All farmers should be included in this code, even if they are doing small scale farming. Activities undertaken by workers in this group include: preparing farms, sowing, treating with insecticides, putting manure and reaping, farming of fruits and other crops from trees, farming and collecting other crops from water, selling their crops to marketing companies or the market.
This group consists of people dealing in farming and forestry.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
[pg.56]
10. Livestock keepers = 10
Activities undertaken by these workers of this groups is together with raising, feeding, or hunting in order to get meat, milk, feathers, skin, or other commodities.
This group consists of producers of commodities made from animals and specialized workers.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
11. Fishermen = 11
All fisher men who fish in dams, lakes, oceans, and even in rivers should be involved in this group.
12. Machine operators, technicians, and drivers = 12
These people drive cars and different machines; supervise and follow up the functioning of machines in machine industry, by direct supervision or remote control; or assembling goods from different places by following special instructions.
Work done by people in this group includes assembling of goods by following special instructions; supervising and running mining machines and iron processing industries and other minerals, wood or chemicals, or supplying electricity; servicing and running machines that produce goods made of iron or other minerals, chemicals, wood, clothes, skin, or plastic.
Others are workers who service and run food processing machines; servicing and running printing and binding machines; driving trains and cars together with running machines. Supervisors of these workers are also involved.
[pg.57]
People involved in this group are as follows:
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
i. Machine operators in industries
ii. Stationery machine operators and assemblers
iii. Drivers and mobile machine operators
13. Other activities without skills = 13
This group involves everyone without skills; normally they require hand tools that mostly involve strength. It should be noted that in these works, skills may be obtained through experience and training at work. Skills to read and write can be required in the accomplishing of some work.
Activities undertaken by these people include selling products on the streets, in crowded places, or house to house, and looking for customers; giving other street services; cleaning, washing, sweeping; carrying and delivering parcels, goods, messages; security; loading in sacks, pedaling and hand guiding vehicles to transport passengers and goods .
[pg.58]
Work in this group includes:
i. Selling and service provision in small scale
Business men on streets
Shoe shiners on streets and other related services
House workers and other related to these
Building caretakers and louver cleaners
Maids, guards, and other related to these
Garbage collectors
Those selling and providing services in small scales
ii. Temporary workers in farming, forestry, fishing, hunting and other related workers. Supervisors, temporary workers in farming, forestry, fishing and others include:
Unskilled workers
Temporary workers and maids in farms
Forest temporary workers
Temporary workers in fishing and hunting
iii. Temporary workers in the mining, construction, industrial and transport sector
Temporary workers in constructions and mining
Temporary workers in goods manufacturing
Temporary workers in the transport sector
Luggage carriers and other related activities
14. Others = 96
These are workers who have no specific group above, together with those who mention unknown activities and those who cannot be categorized under any group.
15. Those who do not know = 98
16. Those who do not mention = 99
This part has five questions (question 16-20) which have to be answered by people of age 5 and above. For census purposes, a job is any economic activity, either if you get paid, make profit, do barter trade, or for domestic use. Housework is not regarded as a job except looking for firewood and fetching water from a source which is far from the respondent's living place. Housework includes laundry works, cleaning, cooking, etc. The housework mentioned above will be considered as economic activities if they are paid for. A house maid doing these works should be considered as employed.
Question 19: What major activity did you do in the past 7 days?
[Those with codes between "01" and "06" in question 17]
This question is answered by those who did economic activities for the past 7 days.
Codes used in this question are as follows:
1. Administrator, managers and law makers = 01
Law makers, administrators, and managers are people who take the highest decisions and policies, laws, and orders of a country, region and street/village authorities or law making body; they plan, instruct, and supervise their implementation; they represent the government or work on its behalf, or do such responsibilities on behalf of a political party or other specific group and ensure the safety of citizens.
This group involves the following:
i. Leaders of political party
ii. Religious leaders and other volunteering institutions
iii. Government executives and administrators
iv. Directors and managers
v. Law makers (members of the parliament, and councilors)
[p. 45]
vi. Administrators of major institutions
vii. Village leaders
viii. Government leaders (central government and local government)
2. Professionals (with degree and advanced diploma) = 02
These include all people whose work always involve a lot of brains and usually need severe training, or people whose work need experience and skills. These professionals are those with degrees and advance diplomas.
These groups are as follows:
i. Scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. This group includes:
Engineers (civil, marine, electronic, etc.)
Chemists
Weather forecasters
Geologists
Architects
Surveyors
Computer scientist
Statisticians
Mathematicians and those of that kind
ii. Biologists and health professionals.
Biologists, botanist, zoologists, etc.
Bacteriologists
Agronomists
Doctors
Dentists
Veterinary doctors
Pharmacists
Nutrition specialists
Nurses with advanced diploma or degree
Health inspectors with advanced diploma or degree
iii. Teachers
University and college lecturers (professors, lecturers, etc.)
Secondary school teachers with advanced diploma or degree
Education inspectors with advanced diploma or degree
[p. 46]
iv. Business, sociology, and the related.
Accountants with advanced diploma or degree
Information officers and library officers with advanced diploma or degree
Psychologists
Sociology professionals
Historians
Translators
Archivists and curators
Economists
Planning and economic officers with advanced diploma or degree
v. Law professionals.
Lawyers
Judges
Judges with advanced diploma or degree
vi. Other professions.
3. Technicians and associate professionals = 03
Technicians and associate professionals do professional work which needs expert knowledge. Assisting professionals are those with normal certificates and professional skills.
This group involves the following:
i. Assistant scientists and general level technicians
ii. Assistant computer scientists
iii. Optical and electronic equipment professionals
iv. Aircraft and ship tower controllers and technicians
v. Building, industrial safety, health and standard inspectors
vi. Other assistant professions.
Assistants in finances and sales
Securities and finance dealers and brokers
Insurance agents
Real estate agents
Travel agents
Business and technical representatives
Large institution agents
Appraisers and evaluators
Auctioneers
Other finance and sales assistants
[p. 47]
Trade brokers and business services agents
Trade brokers
Clearing and forwarding agents
Other brokers and business services agents
Assistant administrators
Assistant administrators and similar occupations
Assistants in law matters and business
Bookkeepers
Assistant statisticians and mathematicians
Land and water transport supervisors
Other administrative assistants
Government professional assistants
Customs officers
Tax officers
Railway and air transport supervisors
License providers
Protective services officials and detectives
Other assistant government officials
Assistants of community services professionals
Community services officials and their assistants
Welfare official assistant
Community development official assistant
Assistants of institutions
Culture centre worker, associate professional
Welfare worker, delinquency, associate professional
Psychiatric social work associate professional
Refugee settlement assistant
Creative and performing arts, and artistic, entertainment and sports associate professionals
Handcrafts, painters and similar occupations
Authors, musicians and singers
Designers
Movie directors and actors, on stage, and others
Radio and television presenters and others
[p. 48]
Sports people and others
Religious leaders' assistants
Non-ordained religious associate professionals
vii. Teachers
Primary school teachers
Nursery school teachers
Other teachers with skills
viii. Science and health associates professionals
Laboratory assistants
Agriculture and forestry/fishing assistants
Other medical assistants (medical assistants, RMA, etc.)
Mid-wives and nurses with skills
ix. Traditional healers of all types
x. Other with several skills in service provision
4. Clerks = 04
Clerk and record keepers, arrange, maintain, and release information related to the work, deal with financial and statistical statements, deal with clerical duties which involves customers monetary issues, transport planning, business information, and appointments.
Their work also include running of the office, short hand writing, typing, and running different office machines, maintain financial and statistical statements.
Occupations in this category include the following groups:
i. Personal secretaries, telephone operators, and assistant registry clerks
Personal secretaries
Typists and short-hand writers
Typists using computer and other operators
Data entry clerks
Arithmetic machine operators
Registry clerks
Transport clerks
ii. Accounts clerks
Accounting clerks and bookkeepers
Statistical and financial clerks
[p. 49]
iii. Clerks who keep records of equipments and transport.
Stores clerks
Manufacturing clerks
Transport clerks
Other related activities
iv. Library, document transport clerks, and others
Library clerks
Document transporters and sorting clerks
Coding, proof reading, and related clerks
v. Service providing clerks
a) Cashiers, tellers
Cashiers
Tellers and other counter clerks
Debt collector
b) News reporting clerks and phone operators
Clerks in the transport sector
Reception clerks
Phone operators
5. Managers and supervisors of small scale business = 05
Small scale business managers are people who run their own business or those who supervise work on behalf of the business owners. Mostly these are long term employees and not laborers. There should only be one manager or supervisor. This group compiles of all kinds of businesses.
6. Service providers and sellers in shops, markets, and permanent stalls = 6
Service providers and shop sellers provide services related to transport, housing maintenance, hotel, personal services, and prevention against fire and other disasters; or sellers and auctioneers of goods in retail and wholesale shops and other places; includes also fashion models. Therefore, duties usually performed by workers in this group include personal services which include the following: transport arrangements, housing maintenance, provision of food and beverages, personal services, etc.
[p. 50]
Those included in this group are as follows:
Personal service providers
i. Supervisors of transport services
Airplane attendants
Conductors of transport vehicles
Passenger directors and others
ii. Housing maintenance staff and restaurant workers
House Stewarts and housekeepers
Cooks
Hotel attendants and bar workers
iii. Housekeepers and house workers in coffee shops
Personal housekeepers
Cooks
Housemaids
iv. Personal service providers
Baby sitters
Personal nurses and other health service providers
Other personal service providers
v. Astrologers and psychics and others of that kind
Astrologers and others of that kind
Psychics, palm readers, and others of that kind
vi. Security service providers
Firemen
Police officers
Soldiers
Security guards
Others who provide security services
vii. Sellers, models, and demonstrators
Demonstrators
Sellers in the market
Designers
Barbers and beauticians
7. Streets small scale retailers = 7
This includes all business people in the streets selling any kind of goods; they must be differentiated with those with code 06.
[p. 51]
8. Normal technicians and handcraft workers = 08
These are technicians with ordinary knowledge and most of the times are trained at work. Laborers who help in building are not to be included as technicians. All professional technicians are to be included in code 03. Remember that those who make baskets, carpets, etc., are to be included in this code. Technicians and others of those kind use resources, make and mend things, build, maintain, and make buildings, roads, machine, and other things. These works are done using hands or hand driven machines which reduce the energy used or time taken or increasing the quality of the services/product.
The works done by this group include processing raw material, building, doing maintenance and fixing of buildings, metal smelting, fitting, making electronic machines, making wooden things, clothes or leather. Supervisors of workers are also included.
This group includes the following:
A. Construction workers and miners
This group includes miners from under or above the ground and in open mines; stone carvers and cutters for construction and other works; building, maintaining, and fixing houses and other buildings. Stones for gravel are not to be included in this group.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
[p. 52]
B. Machine and metal mechanics
Works done by machine and metal mechanics include welding, making metal frames, joining metals, making metal machines, making electronic machines. Supervisors and these workers are included here.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
[p. 53]
C. Verifiers, handcrafts, printing, and others
Works done by people in this group include repairing and verifying tools, making and repairing musical instruments, making glass products, pots and others, mineral ornaments, and others, handcraft works using wood, cloth, skin, and other things of that kind; planning how to print using hands or machine; prepare the tools to be used in printing on paper and on other material; printing of books; also employees' supervisors are included.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
Verifiers of metal, diamond, plastic, paper tools, and others who are related to these
Employees, supervisors in cutting and shinning of diamond and others related to these, tool verifiers
Makers of verifying and renovating tools
Makers of music tools
Those who make and prepare diamond and other minerals
Verifiers of metal, diamond, plastic, paper, and other materials related to these
Makers of pots mirrors and other related
Employees' supervisors in the making of pots and mirrors
Makers of pots and other pottery tools
Makers and cutters of mirrors
Makers of mirror tools and artists drawing on stones/metals/glass engravers and etchers
Those making and decorating pottery tools and others related to these
[pg.54]
Makers of tools from wood, clothes, skin, and other related tools
Supervisors of employees in the making of handmade tools
Makers of tools from wood and other related tools
Cloth makers and other related tools
Makers of tools from palm tree leaves and other related tools
Publishers and other related workers
Publishing supervisors and other related workers
Publishers and those who prepare publishing work
Local publishers and publishers using electronic machines
Printing engravers and etchers, except photo engravers
Photo engravers
Those making books and other related workers
Silk screen, block, and textile printers
All other publishers
D. Other related groups
The work done by this group is together with processing of meat, fish, grains, fruits, and vegetables for human and animal consumption; dealing with and processing traditional threads, skin; making and modifying commodities made by wood, cloth or skin. Also supervisors of these works are included.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
9. Peasants and farmers = 09
All farmers should be included in this code, even if they are doing small scale farming. Activities undertaken by workers in this group include: preparing farms, sowing, treating with insecticides, putting manure and reaping, farming of fruits and other crops from trees, farming and collecting other crops from water, selling their crops to marketing companies or the market.
This group consists of people dealing in farming and forestry.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
[pg.56]
10. Livestock keepers = 10
Activities undertaken by these workers of this groups is together with raising, feeding, or hunting in order to get meat, milk, feathers, skin, or other commodities.
This group consists of producers of commodities made from animals and specialized workers.
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
11. Fishermen = 11
All fisher men who fish in dams, lakes, oceans, and even in rivers should be involved in this group.
12. Machine operators, technicians, and drivers = 12
These people drive cars and different machines; supervise and follow up the functioning of machines in machine industry, by direct supervision or remote control; or assembling goods from different places by following special instructions.
Work done by people in this group includes assembling of goods by following special instructions; supervising and running mining machines and iron processing industries and other minerals, wood or chemicals, or supplying electricity; servicing and running machines that produce goods made of iron or other minerals, chemicals, wood, clothes, skin, or plastic.
Others are workers who service and run food processing machines; servicing and running printing and binding machines; driving trains and cars together with running machines. Supervisors of these workers are also involved.
[pg.57]
People involved in this group are as follows:
[Some details on the contents of the group are omitted]
i. Machine operators in industries
ii. Stationery machine operators and assemblers
iii. Drivers and mobile machine operators
13. Other activities without skills = 13
This group involves everyone without skills; normally they require hand tools that mostly involve strength. It should be noted that in these works, skills may be obtained through experience and training at work. Skills to read and write can be required in the accomplishing of some work.
Activities undertaken by these people include selling products on the streets, in crowded places, or house to house, and looking for customers; giving other street services; cleaning, washing, sweeping; carrying and delivering parcels, goods, messages; security; loading in sacks, pedaling and hand guiding vehicles to transport passengers and goods .
[pg.58]
Work in this group includes:
i. Selling and service provision in small scale
Business men on streets
Shoe shiners on streets and other related services
House workers and other related to these
Building caretakers and louver cleaners
Maids, guards, and other related to these
Garbage collectors
Those selling and providing services in small scales
ii. Temporary workers in farming, forestry, fishing, hunting and other related workers. Supervisors, temporary workers in farming, forestry, fishing and others include:
Unskilled workers
Temporary workers and maids in farms
Forest temporary workers
Temporary workers in fishing and hunting
iii. Temporary workers in the mining, construction, industrial and transport sector
Temporary workers in constructions and mining
Temporary workers in goods manufacturing
Temporary workers in the transport sector
Luggage carriers and other related activities
14. Others = 96
These are workers who have no specific group above, together with those who mention unknown activities and those who cannot be categorized under any group.
15. Those who do not know = 98
16. Those who do not mention = 99
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the type of work (occupation) of a person who worked in the past 7 days.
Universe
Persons age 5+ who worked last week
concept
Concept
| Name | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |