Afrobarometer Survey 2019
Round 8
Malawi, 2019
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Reference ID
MWI_2019_AFB-R8_v01_M
Producer(s)
Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)
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Q95c. Occupation of respondent (Q95C)
Data file: mlw_r8.data_.new_.final_.wtd_release.31mar21.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
9999
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
990
End:
993
Width:
4
Range:
0 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Never had a job | 106 |
8.8%
|
| 1 | Student | 59 |
4.9%
|
| 2 | Housewife / homemaker | 105 |
8.8%
|
| 3 | Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry | 579 |
48.3%
|
| 4 | Trader / hawker / vendor | 86 |
7.2%
|
| 5 | Retail / Shop | 16 |
1.3%
|
| 6 | Unskilled manual worker (e.g., cleaner, laborer, domestic help, unskilled manufacturing worker) | 118 |
9.8%
|
| 7 | Artisan or skilled manual worker (e.g., trades like electrician, mechanic, machinist or skilled manufacturing worker) | 63 |
5.3%
|
| 8 | Clerical or secretarial | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 10 | Security services (police, army, private security) | 15 |
1.3%
|
| 11 | Mid-level professional (e.g., teacher, nurse, mid-level government officer) | 34 |
2.8%
|
| 12 | Upper-level professional (e.g., banker/finance, doctor, lawyer, engineer, accountant, professor, senior-level government | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 9995 | Other | 5 |
0.4%
|
| 9998 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 9999 | Don’t know | 2 |
0.2%
|
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.