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Census of Iceland 1801 - IPUMS Subset

Iceland, 1801
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ISL_1801_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Relationship information in occupation string (OCRELATE)

Data file: ISL1801_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 113
End: 114
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
00 None
10 Wife
11 Widow
12 Son
13 Daughter
14 Other male relative
15 Other female relative
16 Dependent
21 Former or retired
22 Future
31 Voluntary or honourary relationship
41 Physical or mental disability
51 Homeworker
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
OCRELATE preserves inconsistently available information in responses to occupational questions. It is modified from the HISCO subsidiary coding scheme "RELATION." The purpose of OCRELATE is to retain information about social and familial relationships around a person's occupation.

For example, some respondents indicated that they were a "laborer's wife." In this case the response received the occupational (OCCHISCO) code for not having an occupation, and the OCRELATE code for wife (10) to indicate that they were related as a wife to a worker.

Changes from the HISCO RELATION codes
We have removed the "temporal relationships" category from the OCRELATE codes and moved them to OCSTATUS. We felt that "former or retired" and "future" relationships to work were better described as status designators. Future relationships to an occupation were often people describing themselves as students or apprentices in specified professions and trades.

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