Afrobarometer Survey 2017, Round 7
Benin, 2017
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Reference ID
BEN_2017_AFB-R7_v01_M
Producer(s)
Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)
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- ben_r7_data_eng.sav
Q96b. Occupation of head of household (Q96B)
Data file: ben_r7_data_eng.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1059
End:
1060
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
96b. What is the main occupation of the head of the household? [If unemployed, retired or disabled, ask:] What was his/her last main occupation?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Never had a job | 13 |
1.1%
|
| 1 | Student | 5 |
0.4%
|
| 2 | Housewife / homemaker | 9 |
0.8%
|
| 3 | Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry | 302 |
25.2%
|
| 4 | Trader / hawker / vendor | 57 |
4.8%
|
| 5 | Retail / Shop | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 6 | Unskilled manual worker | 25 |
2.1%
|
| 7 | Artisan or skilled manual worker | 90 |
7.5%
|
| 8 | Clerical or secretarial | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager | 5 |
0.4%
|
| 10 | Security services | 8 |
0.7%
|
| 11 | Mid-level professional | 25 |
2.1%
|
| 12 | Upper-level professional | 12 |
1%
|
| 95 | Other | 44 |
3.7%
|
| 97 | Not Applicable (respondent is head of household) | 597 |
49.8%
|
| 98 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 99 | Don’t know | 2 |
0.2%
|
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
Interviewer was instructed to ask this question only if the response to Q96A was not 1=You (respondent) or 99=Don’t know and to select 97=Not applicable if it was.