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Population and Housing Census 1991 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 1991
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Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Minnesota Population Center
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Occupation, 3 digits (UG1991A_0421)

Data file: UGA1991-P-H

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Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 199
End: 201
Width: 3
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
For All Persons Aged 10 Years or Over



18. Occupation last week (what kind of work did person do?)
Categories
Value Category
111 Legislators
112 Senior government officials (under secretaries and above)
113 Traditional chiefs
114 Administrators of special interest organizations (political parties, trade unions e.t.c.)
121 Directors and chief executives (including general managers)
122 Specialized managers
123 Managing supervisors
141 Heads of diplomatic missions
151 Political mobilizers and cadres (including d.a's)
211 Physicist, chemists and related professionals
212 Mathematicians, statisticians
213 System designers, computer programmers
214 Architects, engineers, cartographers, surveyors, town planners and related professionals
221 Biologists, zoologists, botanists, bacteriologists,pharmacologists, agronomists and related professionals
222 Agriculturalists, horticulturists, soil scientists, farming advisers
223 Other life scientists
224 Medical doctors
225 Dentists
226 Pharmacists
227 Veterinary doctors
228 Other health professionals
229 Nursing professionals
231 College, university, and higher education teaching professionals
232 Secondary education teaching professionals
233 Primary and pre-primary education teaching professionals
234 Special education teaching professionals
235 Teacher training institutes teaching professionals
237 Vocational training institutes teaching professionals
238 Agricultural, fishery, and veterinary training institutes teaching professionals
239 Educational methods specialists, school inspectors, and other teaching professionals
241 Accountants, business administrators, and business professionals
242 Legal professionals
243 Archivist, librarians, and related information professionals
244 Social and related professionals
245 Writers and creative and performing artists
246 Religion professionals (ordained catechist)
247 Other officials and administrators
248 Professionals n.e.c.
311 Physical science and engineering technicians
312 Computer assistants and computer equipment controllers
313 Optical, electronic, and medical equipment controllers
314 Ship and air craft controllers and technicians
315 Building, safety, and health inspectors
321 Biological and other life science technicians
322 Agronomy, forestry, and farming technicians and advisors
323 Nurses and midwives (associate professionals)
324 Medical assistants
325 Dental assistants
326 Veterinary and fishery assistants
327 Pharmaceutical assistants and dispensers
328 Other life science professionals
329 Traditional medicine practitioners and faith healers
331 Post-primary education teaching associate professionals
332 Primary education teaching associate professionals
333 Pre-primary education teaching associate professionals
334 Special education teaching associate professionals
335 Other teaching associate professionals n.e.c
341 Finance and sales associate professionals
342 Business service agents and trade brokers
343 Public and private administrative associate professionals
344 Government associate professionals
345 Social work associate professionals
346 Artistic, entertainment, broadcasting and sports associate professionals
347 Non-ordained religion associate professionals
348 Associate professionals and civil servants n.e.c
351 Experienced non-professionals in life science
352 Experienced non-professionals in teaching
353 Experienced non-professionals in sports and cultural entertainment
354 Self employed operating unspecified business
355 Experienced non-professionals in other professions n.e.c.
411 Secretaries and keyboard operating clerks
412 Numerical clerks (statistical, finance, book keeping, and accounting) clerks
413 Material recording and transport clerks
414 Library, mail, filling coders, proof readers and related clerks
421 Cashier, teller, and related clerks
422 Client information clerks
423 Undocumented
511 Travel attendants, guides, conductors, and taxi brokers
512 Restaurant services workers and cooks
513 Personal care workers, housekeepers, hairdressers, barbers, and related workers
514 Other personal services workers
515 Astrologers, fortune tellers, and related workers
516 Protective service workers, policemen, prison wardens, securico
521 Shop salespersons and demonstrators
522 Stall and market salespersons
523 Fashion and other models
531 Government and private agents
532 Importers (people who import only)
533 Exporters (people who export only)
534 Importers and exporters
535 Produce buyers
539 Wholesale traders n.e.c.
541 Food and beverages
542 General merchandise and domestic wares
543 Textiles, footwear and other personal effects goods
544 Undocumented
549 Retailers n.e.c.
611 Market gardeners and crop growers
612 Market-oriented animal producers
613 Market-oriented crop and animal producers
614 Forestry and related workers
615 Fishery workers, hunters, and trappers
616 Foremen in commercial farming and fishery
621 Subsistence agricultural workers
622 Subsistence animal rearing
623 Subsistence fishery and related workers
711 Miners blasters, stone cutters, and carvers
712 Building frame and related trades workers
713 Building finishers and related trades workers
714 Painters, building decorators, structure cleaners, and related workers
715 Brick layers, masons, and other related workers
721 Metal molders, welders, sheet metal workers, structural metal prepares
722 Blacksmiths, tool makers and related materials
723 Machinery mechanics and fitters
724 Electrical and electronic instrument mechanics and fitters precision,
731 Precision workers in metal and related material
732 Potters, glass formers, and related workers
733 Handicraft workers in wood, textiles, and related materials
734 Printing and related trades workers
741 Foods and related products processing trades workers
743 Textiles and garment trades workers (including tailors)
744 Hides and skins, leather and shoe making trades workers
745 Other craftsmen n.e.c
751 Carpenters, cabinet makers, joiners, basket weavers, and brush makers
811 Mining and mineral processing plant operators
812 Metal processing plant operators
813 Glass and ceramics kiln and related plant operators
814 Wood processing and paper making plant operators
815 Chemical processing plant operators
816 Power generating and related plant operators
817 Automated assembly and industrial robot operators
821 Metal and mineral products processing machine operators
822 Chemical products machine operators
823 Rubber and plastics products machine operators
824 Wood products machine operators
825 Printing, binding and related plant operators
826 Chemical processing plant operators
827 Food and related products processing machine operators
828 Assemblers
829 Other stationary machine operators and assemblers
831 Railway engine drivers and related workers
832 Motor vehicle drivers
833 Agricultural, earthmoving, lifting, and mobile materials handling equipment operators
834 Ship's deck crews and related workers
841 Foremen/supervisors in plant, machine operators and assemblers
911 Street vendors and related workers
913 Shoe cleaning and other street elementary occupation services
914 Domestic helpers
915 Building caretakers and window cleaners
916 Messengers, watchers and security workers
917 Garbages collectors and related laborers
918 Other elementary service workers n.e.c.
921 Agricultural, fishery and related laborers
931 Laborers in mining
932 Construction laborers
933 Manufacturing laborers
934 Transport laborers
935 General laborers
941 Foremen/supervisors in elementary occupation services
998 Did not report an occuption
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
120. The next set of questions, 14. to 18, apply to all persons aged 10 or over. Look back at the age you have entered for each person. For those aged 0 to 9 years write "N/A" for question 14 and leave the rest of the column blank.



Question 17 and 18 Activity Status and Occupation

134. Questions 17 and 18 are concerned with how people provide for themselves, how they make their living. The questions apply to women as well as to men.

135. In the week before census night, almost everyone in Uganda will have done something to provide for him or herself. It is your job to discover and record what each person did. It does not matter whether they had a job or were paid for what they did. A person who farmed or fished or replaced thatch on a roof or cultivated a vegetable garden worked. So did people who were in paid employment.

136. Ask the questions as they are set out here and on the questionnaire and talk about each member of the household until you understand what he or she did in the way of making a living last week. Make entries on the questionnaire only when you have the picture clear in your mind.



Question 18 Occupation Last Week

144. "What kind of work did the person do?"

145. If the person was "employed", "self-employed" or "unpaid" we require an exact description of what the person did. For others write "N/A".

146. Remember that we are interested in the main or most important activity. It is sometimes difficult to get an exact answer but you should aim always to provide a two or three word description of what the person did - for example, "sales manager", "typist clerk", "motor mechanic", "foreman carpenter", "primary teacher", "forklift operator". Avoid general terms such as "operator", "clerk", "manager" "selling", "business" or "civil servant". We need to know just what it was the person operated, what kind of a clerk or mechanic, whether a teacher taught in primary or secondary school or at university, whether the person was selling vegetables on the roadside or operating a retail shop or selling motor spares, whether the civil servant was an office messenger, a filing clerk, an executive officer, a government medical doctor or a permanent secretary.

147. Speak to the person concerned whenever possible. Members of the household are often vague as to the occupations of others.

148. If the person is in employment you may find you get a better idea of his/her job by asking for the job title and recording that.

149. Many people may be described as "farmers" or "peasants". It is important that we know what kind of farmers they are.

150. A person living in his/her village, who worked in village or subsistence agriculture last week and who did no other work may be entered as "peasant farmer" which you may shorten to "p farmer". Such a person may do a variety of tasks in growing or gathering produce to feed and clothe his/her family and may sell some produce but is not a commercial farmer.

151. If the person grows crops such as coffee or cotton or raises chickens or other livestock mainly for sale enter them as "coffee grower", "cotton farmer", "market gardener" or as the case may be.

152. Many of these farmers engage in more than one activity but in describing their work you should pick the main activity - the one to which most time is given - the one which the person regards as most important - the one which is commercial.

153. A person may not have worked last week because he or she was temporarily absent from work. In such cases ask about the person's normal occupation. A teacher on holiday, for example, may not have been teaching last week because the schools are closed, but the occupation should be entered as "primary teacher" or "secondary teacher" as the case may be.

154. The next set of questions, 19 to 22, applies to all women aged 12 or over.

155. An answer is required of all women in this category whether or not they are married, whether or not they are still attending school, and whether or not you think they may have borne children.

156. If the person is male or is a girl aged 0-11 years, write "N/A" on line 19 and leave the rest of the column blank.

157. If possible, speak to the woman herself. She will know about the children she has borne and will be able to answer the question more accurately than anyone else.

158. We are concerned with the number of children a woman has borne alive. A child born alive is one who cries after being born. Do not include still births - that is children who did not cry.

159. Ask, "Has this woman borne any children?"

160. If the woman has never borne any children alive, write "0" on lines 19 and 20 and leave lines 21 and 22 blank.

161. If the woman has borne a child or children, ask
"How many children has she borne?"

162. Write the number on line 19. The census is concerned with all the children a woman has borne. Include children who have grown up and left home, children borne by the women to other men as well as her present husband, her children who are living away from home and children who have died even if they died shortly after birth. Be careful to include young babies.

163. Do not include adopted children or step children or children who live with the household but were not borne by the woman herself.

164. "How many of the children she has borne are still alive?"

165. Write the number of children still alive.

166. "When was the last child born?"

167. Record the month and year for children born between 1985 and 1990. For children born before 1985 it will be enough to record the year of birth.

168. "Is the child still alive?"

169. Write "yes" or "no" as appropriate.

170. You have completed particulars of persons in the household. Now check,

that there is no one else you should have included,
that no line has been left blank if it should have been completed,
that others can read what you have written,
that the information you have recorded agrees item with item.


171. If you find that things have gone wrong or there are mistakes or omissions put them right. The record must be complete and accurate before you leave the household.

172. When you are satisfied that the particulars of all persons are correctly recorded, turn over the page and complete the remaining sections of the questionnaire.

173. Record the particulars of disabled persons, the household information and housing conditions on the back of the first page relating to the household. If you have used two or more pages for particulars of persons because there were more than ten in the household on census night, draw a diagonal line across the household particulars on second and subsequent pages.

174. If you are enumerating persons in institutions or in the floating population, leave these sections blank.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's occupation (3-digit) last week.
Universe
Persons age 10+

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Concept
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Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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