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2015 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2011 - 2015
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Class of worker (US2015A_CLASSWKR)

Data file: USA2015_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 344
End: 345
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">41-46 Current or most recent job activity </span>
<br />Describe clearly this person's chief job activity or business last week. If this person had more than one job, describe the one at which this person worked the most hours. If this person had no job or business last week, give information for his/her last job or business.</p>

<p>41. Was this person...
<br /><span class="ital">Mark (X) one box</span><div class="i1">[] an employee of a private for profit company or business, or of an individual, for wages, salary, or commissions?<br />[] an employee of a private not for profit, tax-exempt, or charitable organization?<br />[] a local government employee (city, county, etc.)?<br />[] a state government employee?<br />[] a Federal government employee?<br />[] Self-employed in own not incorporated business, professional practice, or farm?<br />[] Self-employed in own incorporated business, professional practice, or farm?<br />[] working without pay in family business or farm?</div>
Categories
Value Category
00 NIU (not in universe)
13 Self-employed, not incorporated
14 Self-employed, incorporated
22 Wage or salary, private
23 Wage or salary at non-profit
25 Federal government employee
27 State government employee (in Puerto Rico, Commonwealth)
28 Local government employee
29 Unpaid family worker
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 class of worker.
Universe
United States 2015: Persons age 16+ working within the last five years, not new workers [discrepancies: none]

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