Population Census Jamaica 1991 - IPUMS Subset

Jamaica, 1991

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JAM_1991_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

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Division of Censuses and Related Studies, Statistical Institute of Jamaica, Minnesota Population Center

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Occupation, unrecoded (OCC)

Data file: JAM1991-P-H

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Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 132

End: 135

Width: 4

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Description

Definition

OCC records the person's primary occupation, classified according to the system used by the respective national census office at the time. For someone with more than one job, the primary occupation is usually the one in which the person spent the most time or earned the most money, although this may not have been explicit in the instructions for a specific census.

To ensure confidentiality, very small occupations are recoded to a residual category indicating the persons had an occupation, but the job title is not identified. The number of cases recoded should be too small to affect analyses.

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Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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