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Eighth General Population and Housing Census, 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Suriname, 2012
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SUR_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Occupation (groups) (SR2012A_OCC)

Data file: SUR2012_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 247
End: 248
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Personal module</span></p>

<p><span class="h2">Persons 15 and above (employment)</span>
<br />[Questions P30 - P42 were asked of persons aged 15 and above about their employment.]</p>

<p>P33. What kind of work did this person do?</p>
<div class="i1">[Question P33 was asked of persons age 15+ who were active in the period 6 to 12 August 2012, per question P30 or who were not active in that period but absent from work due to, for example: leave, illness, holidays, stay abroad, training, strike, or weather conditions, per question P31.]<br /><br />N.B.: Give a clear description of this person's main activities. <br /><br />Give a specific description of the activity, e.g. carpenter, typist, teacher at a GLO school, teacher of mathematics at a MULO school. If nature of activity is unclear, ask for main activities.<br /><br />N.B.: 'Civil servant' is not a proper description; specify the person's actual activity, e.g. driver at Ministry of Home Affairs.<br /><br />____<br />Code _ _ _ _</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Legislators, senior officials, and managers
02 Professionals
03 Technicians and associate professionals including armed forces
04 Clerks
05 Service workers and shop and market sales workers
06 Skilled agricultural and fishery workers
07 Craft and related trades workers
08 Plant and machine operators and assemblers
09 Elementary occupations
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 person's occupation.
Universe
Suriname 2012: Persons age 15 to 64 who were employed [discrepancies: type I 0.5% ; type II none]

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