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Costa Rica, 1963
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CRI_1963_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Dirección General de Estadísticas y Censos, IPUMS
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Principal occupation (CR1963A_OCC)

Data file: CRI1963_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 147
End: 148
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Occupational Characteristics</span>
<br /><svar v="CR63A447 CR63A448 CR63A449 CR63A450 CR63A451 CR63A452 CR63A453 CR63A454 CR63A455 ">Only for those 12 years of age and older [applies to questions 14 to 19]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="CR63A448 CR63A449 CR63A450 CR63A451 CR63A452 CR63A453 CR63A454">Items 15 - 18 are only for "employed" and "unemployed"<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CR63A448 CR63A449">15. Occupation<br /><div class="i1">Write the principal occupation during the month of March, 1963. If "unemployed" ask and write the last occupation. Examples: musician, doctor, teacher, agricultural laborer, lawyer, bricklayer, etc.<br /><br />____</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
00 Professional, technicians and related
01 Managers
02 Office workers
03 Vendors and related
04 Farmers, ranchers, and related
05 Miners and quarriers
06 Drivers
07 Artisans
08 Other artisans
09 Manual and day laborers
10 Personal services
11 Other workers
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 principal occupation of the respondent.
Universe
Costa Rica 1963: Persons age 12+ who were employed or unemployed [discrepancies: type I: none, type II: trace]

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