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2000 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2000
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GHA_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Ghana Statistical Service, IPUMS
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Class of worker (GH2000A_CLASSWK)

Data file: GHA2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 230
End: 230
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="GH00A420 GH00A421 GH00A422 GH00A423 GH00A424 GH00A425 GH00A426 GH00A427">P13 Type of activity: For P13 to P17; <span class="em">answer only for ages 7 years or older</span>. The answer should refer to the 7 days before census night:<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="GH00A424 GH00A425 GH00A426 GH00A427">[P14-P17 were asked of persons who did not work for pay or profit or family gain and P13b=1 or 2.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="GH00A426">P16 Employment status: What was (name's) employment status in that establishment/industry?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Employee<br />[] 2 Self employed without employees<br />[] 3 Self employed with employees<br />[] 4 Unpaid family worker<br />[] 5 Apprentice<br />[] 6 Domestic employee (house help)<br />[] 7 Other</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Employee
2 Self-employed (no employees)
3 Self-employed (with employees)
4 Unpaid family worker
5 Apprentice
6 Domestic employee (house help)
7 Other
9 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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="em">P13 Type of activity: questions are to be asked of only persons aged 7 years or older; and refer to the seven days before census night</span></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="GH00A426"><span class="em">P16 Employment status: What was (name's) employment status in that establishment/ industry?</span><br /><br />Seven boxes have been provided for this question and where the answer corresponds to one of these you must write the code and mark the appropriate box. Note that you must mark only one box for each respondent.<br /><br />a. Employee- Mark this box for a person who works for a public or private employer and is paid by this employer.<br /><br />b. Self-employed without employees- Mark this box for a person who operates his/her own enterprise (e.g., a farmer, kenkey seller, carpenter) and who does not employ anybody to work for him/her in the operation of his/her enterprise (except perhaps apprentices or members of his/her family). Note that apprentices must not be classified as employees. You must, however, make sure that the assistants of such a person are apprentices and not paid employees before classifying the respondent in this group.<br /><br />c. Self-employed with employees- Mark this box for a person who operates his/her own enterprise directly or through another person (e.g. a manager or caretaker) and who for the operation of this enterprise hires one or more employees. Note that the persons considered employees here exclude unpaid family workers and apprentices, whether they are given an allowance or not.<br /><br />d. Unpaid family worker-- Mark this box for a person who helps in running an economic enterprise operated by a member of his or her family without payment of wages or salary.<br /><br />e. Apprentice- Refers to a worker who is learning a trade and who normally works under the supervision of a qualified worker. He/she may or may not be given an allowance.<br /><br />f. Domestic employee (househelp)-- These are persons who are engaged to render household service with or without pay.<br /><br />Other - To this category belong all persons who do not fall into any of the above groups<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the class of worker of a person.
Universe
Ghana 2000: Persons employed, unemployed, or had a job but did not work [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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