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1970 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 1970
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PRI_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Class of worker (PR1970A_CLASSWKR)

Data file: PRI1970_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 244
End: 245
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="PR70A429 PR70A430 PR70A433 PR70A434 PR70A435 PR70A495 PR70A496 PR70A499 PR70A500 PR70A501"><span class="em">30-32. Show in questions 30-32 this person's job or business during the last week. If he had no job or business last week, give information for most recent job or business since 1960.</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PR70A435"><span class="em">32. Class of worker: Mark from the information in 30-31 or ask if not clear. </span><br /><div class="i1">[] Employee of private company, business, or individual, for wages, salary, or commissions<br />[] Employee of Federal government<br />[] Employee of Commonwealth government<br />[] Employee of municipal government<br />Self-employed in own business, farm, etc.?<br />[] Own business not incorporated<br />[] Own business incorporated<br />[] Working without pay in family business or farm</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
00 NIU (not in universe)
13 Self-employed, not incorporated
14 Self-employed, incorporated
22 Wage/salary, private
25 Federal government employee
27 State government employee
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 identifies the class of worker of the person.
Universe
Puerto Rico 1970: Persons age 14+ who had worked within the previous ten years [discrepancies: not verifiable]

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