National Population and Housing Census 1978 - IPUMS Subset

Poland, 1978

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POL_1978_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Economic position in the household (PL1978A_ECONPOS)

Data file: POL1978_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 135

End: 136

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
00	Married couple with their own source of income, not supporting anybody else
01	Other persons with their own source of income, not supporting anybody else
02	A wife or a husband with her or his own source of income and maintaining a spouse
03	Other persons with their own source of income and maintaining at least one other person from their household
04	Main breadwinner (supporter)
05	Secondary breadwinner (supporter)
06	Spouses being maintained by supporter
07	Other persons being supported by persons who are also supporting their spouses
08	Being supported by the other sole breadwinners
09	Being supported by co-supporters
10	Being supported by other persons (not registered within the household)

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 economic position in the household and whether the person is supporting other persons or being maintained by a supporter.

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Poland 1978: All persons

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