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Population Census; Building and Housing Census 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Austria, 1981
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AUT_1981_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 (AT1981A_OCCM)

Data file: AUT1981_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 175
End: 176
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="AT81A420 AT81A421 AT81A422"><span class="em">(11) Exact Job Description:</span><br /><div class="i1">(a) (For example "paint mixer"--not "support staff"; or for example "booking/reservations machine operator"--not "office employee; or for example "civil servant in higher country-archive-work"--not "civil servant") ____<br /><br />(b) Key word description of your occupational activity ________</div><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.
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="AT81A420 AT81A421 AT81A422 AT81A423 AT81A424 AT81A425"><span class="em">For questions 11 and 14, Job title, Branch of industry</span><br /><br />The answers for questions 11 and 14 checked in the systematic distortions at the Statistic Central Office, so that they can be properly encoded for processing with the computer. Concerning a general held answer, i.e. "office employee", the editor however does not know if the person should be classified as an authorized signatory, accountant, shorthand typist, or paper sorter. If in question 14 for example only "metal branch" is marked, then this could just as well be a rolling mill or a car factory, an art-lock making or an ironware store. Therefore the most accurate possible answers are requested.<br /><br />In Question 11b, the professional occupation should be described in addition in note form. If someone remarks that they are not able to describe their profession, then they should refer to the auxiliary questions from the explanations (on the fourth page of the household list). During the test census before the people's census, it was found that keyword descriptions of professions were very practical for the encoding of answers.<br /></svar>

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.
Universe
Austria 1981: All persons

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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