World Values Survey - Wave 7, 2017
United States, 2017
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USA_2017_WVS-W7_v01_M
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Respondent's Father - Occupational group (when respondent was 14 years old) (Q283)
Data file: WVS_Wave_7_United_States_Stata_v5.0
Overview
Valid:
2596
Invalid:
0
Minimum:
-2
Maximum:
10
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
9
Range:
-2 - 10
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -2 | No answer | 115 |
4.4%
|
| -1 | Don't know | 261 |
10.1%
|
| 0 | Never had a job | 15 |
0.6%
|
| 1 | Professional and technical (for example: doctor, teacher, engineer, artist, accountant, nurse){Professional and technical} | 467 |
18%
|
| 2 | Higher administrative (for example: banker, executive in big business, high government official, union official){Higher administrative } | 158 |
6.1%
|
| 3 | Clerical (for example: secretary, clerk, office manager, civil servant, bookkeeper{Clerical } | 78 |
3%
|
| 4 | Sales (for example: sales manager, shop owner, shop assistant, insurance agent, buyer){Sales } | 187 |
7.2%
|
| 5 | Service (for example: restaurant owner, police officer, waitress, barber, caretaker){Service } | 175 |
6.7%
|
| 6 | Skilled worker (for example: foreman, motor mechanic, printer, seamstress, tool and die maker, electrician){Skilled worker } | 610 |
23.5%
|
| 7 | Semi-skilled worker (for example: bricklayer, bus driver, cannery worker, carpenter, sheet metal worker, baker){Semi-skilled worker} | 250 |
9.6%
|
| 8 | Unskilled worker (for example: labourer, porter, unskilled factory worker, cleaner){Unskilled worker} | 182 |
7%
|
| 9 | Farm worker (for example: farm labourer, tractor driver){Farm worker } | 41 |
1.6%
|
| 10 | Farm owner, farm manager{Farm owner/manager} | 57 |
2.2%
|
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.