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Swiss Federal Population Census of 1980 - IPUMS Subset

Switzerland, 1980
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Federal Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center
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Socio-economic status in employment (CH1980A_0422)

Data file: CHE1980-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 191
End: 193
Width: 3
Range: 10 - 999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
D. Questions to persons who carry out a profession (Numbers 18-20) and housewives (only Number 18c)




19. Main profession or part-time activity:

a. What is your present activity? Please specify, possibly in note form, e.g. not just factory worker, but e.g. metal polisher, electrical winding-machine operator; not just "employee" but e.g. sales-assistant, punch card operator, general office-work.____

b. Occupational status, hierarchical grade: e.g. apprentice, laborer, unskilled worker, home-worker, skilled worker, foreman, chief clerk, shop-foreman, senior bank employee, works manager, tenant-farmer, proprietor, relative employed in family business.____

c. Name of employer, firm ____
[Persons who work for several employers, e.g. home-workers, cleaners, should write 'several' only.]

d. Branch, line of business: please specify as accurately as possible, e.g. not just "furniture" but "furniture factory" or "furniture dealer" ____





E. Questions to pensioners and retired persons




22. Professional status, hierarchical grade____
Examples: see Question 19b
Categories
Value Category
10 Directors/CEOs
20 Liberal professions
31 Farm executives
32 Artisans
33 Self-employed in business and communication services
34 Self-employed in social and personal services
41 Engineers and technical managers in agriculture
42 Engineers and technical managers in production and construction
43 Executives in business and communication services
44 Executives in social and personal services
51 Technical brokers/salespeople in agriculture
52 Technical brokers/salespeople in production and construction
53 Brokers/salespeople in business and communication services
54 Brokers/salespeople in social and personal services
62 Technical production and construction white collar employees
63 White collar employees in business and communication services
64 White collar employees in social and personal services
71 Agricultural workers
72 Production and construction workers
73 Workers in business and communication services
81 Unskilled agricultural labor
82 Unskilled production and construction labor
83 Unskilled labor in business and communication services
84 Unskilled labor in social and personal services
90 Unattributable employed working persons
200 Unemployed, laid off
301 Non-active in training
303 Non-active doing housework
304 Non-active retired and living off investment or retirement income
305 Other non-active
990 Response suppressed
999 NIU (not in universe)
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
Question 19: Principal occupation and part time occupation

a) What is your occupation presently?

The current occupation is to be chosen, not the learned profession. The question is to be answered as precisely as possible. The actual occupation, not the position title, is to be entered (see examples on the questionnaire.)

Fulltime housewives and house daughters enter "housewife" or "housekeeping" in question 19a.
Persons working in institutions enter their specific occupation there.

[p. 43]

b) Position at work

Persons who work all or most of the time in a family enterprise are working family members. Home workers are persons who work in their dwelling or another self-selected place for wages for one or more employer.
Other possibilities are, for example, journey man, apprentice, director, co-owner. Public servants give their position title.

c) Name of employer, company

Public servants enter the name of their office.

d) Branch of economy, industry

The branch of economy should be specific, such as cotton spinning, hosiery knitting, grocery store, etc.
Female employees in agriculture should state whether they work predominantly in the household or in agricultural duties.




Questions 21 and 22: Former occupation of retired persons

The analysis of this question is to provide information on health risks and life expectancies of the various professions.

Retired persons state the occupation they had when they retired at the retirement age (men 65, women 62), even so if they might have answered already 19a and b, because they worked beyond the retirement age. If such a job after retirement is different from that before retirement, then the former should be considered for questions 19a and b, and the latter for questions 21 and 22.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the socio-economic status in employment of the person.
Universe
Persons age 15+

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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