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The United Republic of Tanzania, 2002 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 1902
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TZA_2002_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
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Occupation last week (TZ2002A_OCC)

Data file: TZA2002_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 225
End: 226
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="TZ02A417 TZ02A418 TZ02A419 TZ02A420 TZ02A421"><span class="h3">D. Economic activity</span><br />For persons age 5 and older<br />[Questions 16-20.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="TZ02A420">19. Occupation<br />What type of work did [respondent] do for the last seven days?<br /><div class="i1">Write the appropriate code.<br />_ _</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 Legislators, administrators
02 Professional
03 Technicians and associate professionals
04 Clerks
05 Small business managers
06 Service workers, shop and stall sales workers
07 Street vendors and related workers
08 Crafts and related workers
09 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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of work (occupation) of a person who worked in the past 7 days.
Universe
Tanzania 2002: Persons age 5+ who worked last week [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

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