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Swiss Federal Population Census of 1980 - IPUMS Subset

Switzerland, 1980
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CHE_1980_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Federal Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center
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Dec 19, 2014
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Means of transport (travel mode) to work (CH1980A_0425)

Data file: CHE1980-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 196
End: 197
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
B. Questions to employed, students and school-children from 1st primary class upwards

[Drivers, railway employees, building workers, etc., indicate their place or work]

[Commercial travelers write 'traveling']


14. Means of transport used
Categories
Value Category
1 No commute
2 Solely on foot
10 Train
13 Train+street car, bus, post-office bus
15 Train+ private car (driver, passenger)
18 Train+bicycle, moped
30 Street car, bus, post-office bus
35 Street car, bus, post-office bus+private car (driver, passenger)
38 Street car, bus, post-office bus+bicycle, moped
40 Other public transportation
50 Company bus
60 Private car (driver, passenger)
70 Motorcycle
90 Bicycle, moped
98 Unknown
99 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 14: Mode of commuting

Persons walking as well taking mechanized modes of transportation enter the latter.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the mode of transportation the person uses to get to work.
Universe
Employed persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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