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The United Republic of Tanzania, Population Census 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 1988
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TZA_1988_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
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Occupation (TZ1988A_OCC)

Data file: TZA1988_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 205
End: 206
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="TZ88A413 TZ88A414 TZ88A415 TZ88A416 TZ88A417 TZ88A418"><span class="h2">Persons 5 years and older</span><br />[Applied to questions 14 to 18]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="TZ88A416 TZ88A417">17. What kind of work is [the respondent] usually doing? Enter code for work usually done. ____<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 Legislators, administrators, etc
02 Professionals
03 Clerks
04 Service and sales
05 Subsistence agricultural workers
06 Market-oriented agricultural workers
07 Craftsmen and machine operators
08 Elementary occupation
09 Piece workers
10 Other occupations
99 NIU (not in universe)
98 Unknown
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 respondent's occupation. Although the enumeration form indicates that all persons age 5 and older are asked the question. However, only persons age 10 and older have responses in the dataset, suggesting post-enumeration editing.
Universe
Tanzania 1988: Persons age 10+ who are employed [discrepancies: none]

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