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VIII National Population and Housing Census, 2002 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 2002
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DOM_2002_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), IPUMS
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Professional status (DO2002A_CLASSWK)

Data file: DOM2002_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 290
End: 290
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">For persons of 10 years old and more</span></p>

<p>51. In that job, [the respondent] is/ was:</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Employee earning a wage or salary <br />[] 2 Employer or boss<br />[] 3 Unpaid family worker <br />[] 4 Self-employed (Skip to question 54)<br />[] 5 Member of a production cooperative (Skip to question 54)<br />[] 6 Other (Skip to question 54)</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Paid employee
2 Employer/owner
3 Unpaid family worker
4 Self employed
5 Member of production cooperative
6 Other
7 Other employee, employer, or family worker
8 Unknown
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">For people age 10 or older </span></p>

<p><span class="em">Question 51: In that job (NAME) was (or is)?</span></p>

<p>Read clearly all the answer options to the interviewee for this question. Read slowly and clearly so the interviewee can fully understand. </p>

<p>Fill in the correct answer.
<br />If the interviewee answered with code 4, 5 or 6 skip to question 54. </p>

<p><span class="em">Salary paid employee: </span>A person that works as an employee, laborer, day laborer and that receives a salary for the work he/she does in an institution, company, business or farm. These include those employees that receive a fix salary (monthly, biweekly, etc.) as well as those who get paid by commission or by job basis, or by honorary or in other similar ways. </p>

<p><span class="pg">[PAGE 33]</span></p>

<p><span class="ital">Employer or Owner: </span>A person that has his/her own company, business, or establishment and employs more than one person, which he/she pays a salary.</p>

<p><span class="ital">Independent Worker: </span>A person that works independently in an economic activity. He/she could work by himself/herself or be associated to others and receive help from family members.
<br />
<br /><span class="ital">Family worker with no remuneration: </span>Persons that do not receive any type of remuneration, either a salary or any payment for the work that they do in a business, company or family economic activity. </p>

<p><span class="ital">Member of a cooperative: </span>A person that works for a cooperative obtaining some sort of income from his/her work there. </p>

<p><span class="ital">Other category: </span>A person with other positions or work characteristics not previously specified.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's professional status during the previous week or the person's professional status in his or her last occupation if the person had worked before but was not working during the previous week.
Universe
Dominican Republic 2002: Persons age 10+ who have ever worked or earned money [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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