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Population Census; Building and Housing Census 1971 - IPUMS Subset

Austria, 1971
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AUT_1971_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Austrian Central Statistical Office, IPUMS
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Occupation of supporter: major groups (AT1971A_OCCM)

Data file: AUT1971_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 174
End: 175
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="AT71A420 AT71A421 AT71A418 AT71A419 AT71A422 AT71A423 AT71A424"><span class="em">For employed persons, active duty guardsmen, and unemployed persons</span><br />[Questions 15-17 were asked of employed persons, active duty guardsman, and unemployed persons only.]<br /></svar></p>

<p>Please note the explanations on page 4 of the household list.</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="AT71A420 AT71A421"><span class="em">15. Practiced profession:</span> ________<br /><div class="i1">Please be precise. Not: "Unskilled worker", "Office employee", "civil servant", but e.g. "paint mixer", "booking/reservations machine operator", "civil servant in higher country-archive-work".</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="AT71A420 AT71A421"><span class="em">For Question 15, practiced profession</span>: For multiple practiced professions, only answers about the main profession should be answered. This also applies to Questions 16 and 17. Unemployed persons and active duty guardsmen give answers concerning the most recently practiced profession.<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 Professionals, technicians and related, managers
02 Clerical occupations
03 Wholesale and retail trade occupations
04 Service occupations, armed forces
05 Transport occupations, machine operators
06 Agricultural and forestry occupations
07 Basic industry workers
08 Construction and related trades workers
09 Product manufacturing workers
10 Laborers without further details
11 Retired persons
12 Other income recipients, activity not stated
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 occupation major group of the person or the person's "supporter." The variable reports the actual status for people who were economically active. Economically inactive children reported the status of the household head or working parent, if the head did not work. Other household members reported they were inactive if they were retired or self-supporting non-workers; otherwise they reported the status of the household head.
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Austria 1971: All persons

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