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2012 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2012
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TZA_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
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Occupation (TZ2012A_OCC)

Data file: TZA2012_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 267
End: 268
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">D. Economic activity: All persons aged 5 years and above</span>
<br /><span class="em">[Questions 23-27 were asked of persons aged 5+]</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Economic activity</span></p>

<p>26. Occupation </p>
<div class="i1">What type of work did [the respondent] do in the week preceding the census' night? _ _<br /><br />Write and shade the appropriate code. Codes are in a separate handbook.</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Legislators, administrators and managers
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 inc. drivers
13 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 occupational status.
Universe
Tanzania 2012: Persons age 5+ who were economically active in the last week [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

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