Third General Census of Population and Housing 2005 - IPUMS Subset
Cameroon, 2005
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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Minnesota Population Center
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Occupation (CM2005A_0506)
Data file: CMR2005-P-H
Overview
Valid:
0
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
274
End:
276
Width:
3
Range:
11 - 999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Economic activity for persons aged 6 years and above
[Questions 27 to 33 were asked of persons aged 6 years and older.]
30. Occupation
What is the person's main status in the work being done? _ _ _
[Question 30 was asked of persons aged 6 years and older who reported working in the last 7 days, per Question 28.]
[Questions 27 to 33 were asked of persons aged 6 years and older.]
30. Occupation
What is the person's main status in the work being done? _ _ _
[Question 30 was asked of persons aged 6 years and older who reported working in the last 7 days, per Question 28.]
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 11 | Armed forces |
| 12 | Gendarmery (military force charged with police duties) |
| 13 | Police |
| 14 | Armed forces n.e.c. |
| 111 | Members of the executive and legislative bodies |
| 112 | Senior executives of public administration |
| 113 | Traditional chiefs and heads of villages |
| 114 | Executives of public and semi-public |
| 115 | Heads of mission diplomatic and international organizations |
| 117 | Officers and directors of organizations of employers or workers |
| 119 | Other members of the executive and legislative bodies, and senior government n.e.c |
| 121 | Ceos and directors of companies and private corporations modern |
| 122 | Senior management, production and operations enterprises and companies in the modern sector |
| 123 | Senior management companies and corporations in the modern sector |
| 131 | Managers of small and medium enterprise (sme pmi) |
| 139 | Other leaders and managers n.e.c |
| 211 | Physicists, geologists, meteorologists, astronomers, and similar geophysicists |
| 212 | Mathematicians, statisticians and assimilated |
| 213 | Techies engineer, engineer cyberneticians engineer telecommunications engineer and assimilated |
| 214 | Engineer, architects, planners, surveyors and assimilated |
| 215 | Civil engineers, engineer of public works, civil engineer pavement, cartographers engineer, engineer surveyors, engineers surveyors |
| 216 | Electrical engineers, electronics engineers, electricians engineers |
| 217 | Agronomist, agriculture engineer, engineer of rural engineering, engineer and engineer zootechnician assimilated |
| 218 | Engineer air navigation drivers aircraft commanders and assimilated |
| 219 | Engineer n.e.c |
| 221 | Biologist, zoologist, botanist, agronomist, bacteriologist, pharmacologist |
| 222 | Physicians, dentists, pharmacists, veterinarians. |
| 223 | Senior nurses and midwives |
| 229 | Other medical scientists and life sciences |
| 231 | College, university and higher education institutions |
| 232 | Professor of secondary education |
| 233 | Teacher of primary and pre-primary |
| 234 | Teachers specialized in the education of disabled |
| 239 | Other teaching professionals |
| 241 | Administrative and commercial enterprises specialists |
| 242 | Legal professionals (lawyers, magistrates and the like) |
| 243 | Archivists, librarians, documentalists |
| 244 | Social science (economist, sociologist, anthropologist, demographer, philosopher, psychologist, historian, linguist, translator, interpreter, specialist in political science, social work specialists) |
| 245 | Writers and creative artists (author, journalist, editors and other specialists information processing, composer, singers, choreographers, sculptor, painters and assimilated) |
| 246 | Clergy |
| 249 | Other professionals intellectual and scientific |
| 311 | Techniques of physical and engineering science |
| 312 | Console operators and other operators of computer hardware technicians |
| 313 | Optical and electronic equipment |
| 314 | Technicians means of sea and air transport |
| 315 | Inspector of buildings, safety, hygiene and quality |
| 316 | Intermediate professions and related statistical work |
| 319 | Other associate professionals physical and technical |
| 321 | Technicians and related life sciences and health |
| 322 | Intermediate occupations of modern medicine (except nursing) classified 223 |
| 323 | Nursing and midwifery (intermediate level) |
| 324 | Traditional medicine practitioners and healers |
| 329 | Other associate professionals life science and health |
| 331 | Intermediate occupations in primary education |
| 332 | Professionals pre-primary education |
| 333 | Professions intermediate education for the disabled |
| 339 | Other teaching associate professionals |
| 341 | Associate professionals finance and sales |
| 342 | Agents and trade brokers |
| 343 | Administrative associate professionals |
| 344 | Intermediate occupations of government customs and taxes, and similar |
| 345 | Inspectors of police and detectives |
| 346 | Intermediate professions of social work |
| 347 | Associate professionals artistic, entertainment and sports |
| 348 | Religious associate |
| 349 | Other associate professionals n.e.c. |
| 411 | Secretaries and keyboard-operating |
| 412 | Employees of accounting and financial services |
| 413 | Employees procurement, scheduling and transport |
| 414 | Library, mail service and similar |
| 419 | Other office clerks |
| 421 | Cashiers, tellers and related clerks |
| 422 | Employees receiving and customer information |
| 429 | Other employees receiving, cashiers, tellers nec |
| 511 | Travel attendants and related |
| 512 | Housekeeping and restaurant services |
| 513 | Personal care and related |
| 514 | Other personal services to individuals (hairdressers, specialist beauty treatments and related workers, company staff and valets, agents undertakers and embalmers) |
| 515 | Astrologers, fortune-tellers and related workers |
| 516 | Personal protective services and security |
| 517 | Staff cyber café and call box and related workers |
| 519 | Other personal services workers nec |
| 521 | Fashion and other models |
| 522 | Shop salespersons and demonstrators |
| 523 | Sellers miscellaneous items (textiles, footwear, clothing, hardware and household products stall and market |
| 524 | Bayam sellam |
| 525 | Sellers live animals and poultry products (eggs) |
| 526 | Sellers food from agricultural stall and market |
| 527 | Sellers food animal stall and market |
| 528 | Seller's stall or market food |
| 529 | Other n.e.c salespersons and demonstrators |
| 611 | Farmers and skilled workers of crops for market |
| 612 | Breeders and skilled workers for livestock markets and similar |
| 613 | Farmers and skilled workers polyculture and animal producers |
| 614 | Occupations forestage, palm wine tapper you raffia and similar workers |
| 615 | Fishery workers, hunters and trappers |
| 619 | Other farmers and workers skilled agricultural and fishery markets for |
| 621 | Farmers and skilled workers polyculture and animal producers |
| 629 | Other farmers and workers in agriculture and subsistence fishing |
| 711 | Miners, shotfirers and stonemasons |
| 712 | Construction workers (shell) and similar |
| 713 | Construction workers (finishes) and similar |
| 714 | Painters, building structure cleaners and related |
| 719 | Other craft and related trades workers mining and construction |
| 721 | Metal moulders, welders, sheet-metal workers, ironworkers and similar |
| 722 | Blacksmiths, toolmakers and related |
| 723 | Machinery mechanics and fitters |
| 724 | Mechanics and fitters electrical and electronic equipment |
| 729 | Other craft and related trades workers metallurgy, mechanical engineering and related n.e.c |
| 731 | Precision workers in metal and related materials |
| 732 | Potters, glass-makers and related |
| 733 | Handicraft workers in wood, textile, leather and related materials |
| 734 | Trades workers printing and related |
| 739 | Other craft and related workers in the precision engineering, crafts, printing and related |
| 741 | Trades workers food and allied |
| 742 | Artisans and workers woodworking, cabinet and similar |
| 743 | Artisans and trades workers textile and skillfully treated and |
| 744 | Trades workers work skins and leather shoe |
| 749 | Other craft and related trades workers n.e.c craft |
| 814 | Plant operators woodworking and papermaking |
| 816 | Plant operators and related energy |
| 823 | Drivers machines for manufacturing rubber products and plastic materials |
| 824 | Machine operators wood |
| 825 | Drivers printing machines, binding machines and paper machines |
| 827 | Machine operators for the manufacture of food and related products |
| 829 | Other machine operators and assembly workers |
| 831 | Locomotive engine drivers and related |
| 832 | Drivers of motor vehicles including taxi drivers and bus |
| 833 | Operators of mobile equipment and other agricultural mobile machinery |
| 834 | Deckhands and similar |
| 835 | Motorbike taxi drivers |
| 836 | Driver of motor skiff or paddle |
| 839 | Other vehicle drivers and heavy equipment lifting and maneuvering |
| 899 | Other operators not elsewhere classified |
| 911 | Street vendors and related |
| 912 | Shoe cleaning and other workers |
| 913 | Aids and other household helpers, cleaners and launderers |
| 914 | Personnel service building caretakers, window and related cleaners |
| 915 | Messengers, porters, doorkeepers, chargers in bus stations and allied workers |
| 916 | Garbage collectors and related laborers |
| 919 | Other unskilled services and sales |
| 921 | Labourers in agriculture, fishery and related |
| 929 | Other operations of the agriculture, fisheries and allied |
| 931 | Labourers in mining, construction and public works |
| 932 | Manufacturing laborers |
| 933 | Transport laborers and freight handlers |
| 939 | Other labourers in mining, construction and public works, manufacturing and transport nec |
| 990 | Other occupation, response suppressed |
| 998 | Professional activities not adequately defined or unclassifiable |
| 999 | 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
Questions (Questions 27-33) related to the economic activity are only ask to people 6 years old and older
30. Employment
Employment is the regular activity done by the surveyed person over the course of the last 7 days preceding the survey agent's visit to the household.
Q30. For those who worked during the reference week: What job did ______ do? For those without employment already having worked: What was ______'s last job?
Following the registration order:
Legibly write the employment declared on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order of the surveyed person.
NB. Clearly mark the nature of the job that the person did during the reference week or that the person did before ending up unemployed.
[Examples omitted]
NB. Avoid vague responses like:
-Farmer for all those who farm
-Engineer for all engineers
-Government employee for all those employed by the government or the State
30. Employment
Employment is the regular activity done by the surveyed person over the course of the last 7 days preceding the survey agent's visit to the household.
Q30. For those who worked during the reference week: What job did ______ do? For those without employment already having worked: What was ______'s last job?
Following the registration order:
Legibly write the employment declared on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order of the surveyed person.
NB. Clearly mark the nature of the job that the person did during the reference week or that the person did before ending up unemployed.
[Examples omitted]
NB. Avoid vague responses like:
-Farmer for all those who farm
-Engineer for all engineers
-Government employee for all those employed by the government or the State
Description
Definition
This variable indicates a person's occupation.
Universe
Residents of the household who are working or have worked in the past
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |