General Population Census of 1968 - IPUMS Subset
France, 1968
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FRA_1968_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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INSEE (Institut National de la Statisque et des Etudes Economiques), IPUMS
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Occupation (FR1968A_OCC)
Data file: FRA1968_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
183
End:
184
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar v="FR68A403 FR68A405 FR68A407 FR68A409 FR68A410 FR68A430 FR68A436 FR68A437 FR68A439"><span class="em">Education and professional formation (for all persons born before January 1st, 1962)</span><br />[Applies to questions 8 - 11]<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="FR68A405 FR68A430 FR68A437 FR68A439"><span class="h3">8. Are you currently a student?</span><br /><div class="i1">[] Yes (Answer question 9)<br />[] No (Answer questions 10 and 11)</div><br />Do not answer "yes" unless you are taking classes (including professional or technical classes) or at the university for the normal duration of the school year.<br />If you are apprenticed under contract, if you are not taking any classes except for some professional classes part-time, or classes by correspondence for perfecting your skills, seasonal agricultural classes, etc. answer "no".<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar v="FR68A401 FR68A405 FR68A406 FR68A408 FR68A414 FR68A425 FR68A427 FR68A429 FR68A430 FR68A433 FR68A437 FR68A438 FR68A439"><span class="em">Professional activity (for all persons born before January 1st, 1954)</span><br />[Applies to questions 12- 18]<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR68A414" v="FR68A405 FR68A414 FR68A437"><span class="h3">12. Main profession</span>: Indicate the profession or the occupation which you are currently practicing (even if you are still only an apprentice or if you are working by helping a member of your family in his/her work.) A woman who is taking care of her home should answer "no profession".<br /><div class="i1">____</div><br /><span class="em">Be specific</span>: Examples: auto repair mechanic, clothing producer, steel worker, draftsman, electrical engineer, grain broker, wine-producer, driver of large trucks, swine breeder, hairdresser, shorthand typist, etc.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR68A406 FR68A425" v="FR68A405 FR68A406 FR68A425 FR68A438"><span class="h3">14. Do you practice your main profession declared in question 12 as:</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 2 Owner, farmer, sharecropper.<br />[] 3 Member of a free-market profession<br />[] 4 Employer or self-employed: artisan, merchant, industrialist, etc. (self-employed, including managers of the S.A.R.L. [<span class="lang">Société responsabilité limitée</span>] and people only working on commission).<br />[For any of the above options:]</div><br /><div class="i2">Do you hire employees?<br />Do not count servants at home in your service. In agriculture, only count permanent paid workers.<br />[] Yes<br />How many?</div><br /><div class="i3">[] 1 1 to 2<br />[] 3 3 to 5<br />[] 6 6 or more</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 0 No</div><br /><div class="i1">[] 5 Person working at home for one (or more) businesses.<br />[] 6 Apprenticed under contract.<br />[] 7 Paid worker : answer questions 15a, 15b or 15c below:</div><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar v="FR68A405 FR68A437 FR68A439"><span class="h3">18. If you don't work anymore:</span><br /><div class="i1">(You are, for example, retired from public service, a retired executive, old retired worker, former farmer, retired from business, etc.)<br />What is your main profession? ____</div><br /></svar>
<p><svar a="all" v="FR68A405 FR68A430 FR68A437 FR68A439"><span class="h3">8. Are you currently a student?</span><br /><div class="i1">[] Yes (Answer question 9)<br />[] No (Answer questions 10 and 11)</div><br />Do not answer "yes" unless you are taking classes (including professional or technical classes) or at the university for the normal duration of the school year.<br />If you are apprenticed under contract, if you are not taking any classes except for some professional classes part-time, or classes by correspondence for perfecting your skills, seasonal agricultural classes, etc. answer "no".<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar v="FR68A401 FR68A405 FR68A406 FR68A408 FR68A414 FR68A425 FR68A427 FR68A429 FR68A430 FR68A433 FR68A437 FR68A438 FR68A439"><span class="em">Professional activity (for all persons born before January 1st, 1954)</span><br />[Applies to questions 12- 18]<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR68A414" v="FR68A405 FR68A414 FR68A437"><span class="h3">12. Main profession</span>: Indicate the profession or the occupation which you are currently practicing (even if you are still only an apprentice or if you are working by helping a member of your family in his/her work.) A woman who is taking care of her home should answer "no profession".<br /><div class="i1">____</div><br /><span class="em">Be specific</span>: Examples: auto repair mechanic, clothing producer, steel worker, draftsman, electrical engineer, grain broker, wine-producer, driver of large trucks, swine breeder, hairdresser, shorthand typist, etc.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR68A406 FR68A425" v="FR68A405 FR68A406 FR68A425 FR68A438"><span class="h3">14. Do you practice your main profession declared in question 12 as:</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 2 Owner, farmer, sharecropper.<br />[] 3 Member of a free-market profession<br />[] 4 Employer or self-employed: artisan, merchant, industrialist, etc. (self-employed, including managers of the S.A.R.L. [<span class="lang">Société responsabilité limitée</span>] and people only working on commission).<br />[For any of the above options:]</div><br /><div class="i2">Do you hire employees?<br />Do not count servants at home in your service. In agriculture, only count permanent paid workers.<br />[] Yes<br />How many?</div><br /><div class="i3">[] 1 1 to 2<br />[] 3 3 to 5<br />[] 6 6 or more</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 0 No</div><br /><div class="i1">[] 5 Person working at home for one (or more) businesses.<br />[] 6 Apprenticed under contract.<br />[] 7 Paid worker : answer questions 15a, 15b or 15c below:</div><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar v="FR68A405 FR68A437 FR68A439"><span class="h3">18. If you don't work anymore:</span><br /><div class="i1">(You are, for example, retired from public service, a retired executive, old retired worker, former farmer, retired from business, etc.)<br />What is your main profession? ____</div><br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 00 | Farmers |
| 10 | Agricultural employees |
| 21 | Industrialists |
| 22 | Artisans |
| 23 | Fishers |
| 26 | Whole-salers |
| 27 | Small merchanges |
| 30 | Free-market professions |
| 32 | Teachers, literary and scientific professions |
| 33 | Engineers |
| 34 | Master administrative executives |
| 41 | Instructors, diverse intellectual professions |
| 42 | Medical and social services |
| 43 | Technicians |
| 44 | Administrative executives |
| 51 | Office employees |
| 53 | Business employees |
| 60 | Supervisors |
| 61 | Skilled workers |
| 63 | Specialized unskilled workers |
| 65 | Miners |
| 66 | Boatmen and fishers |
| 67 | Apprenticed workers |
| 68 | Unskilled workers |
| 70 | Servants |
| 71 | Housewives |
| 72 | Other service staff |
| 80 | Artists |
| 81 | Clergy |
| 82 | Army and police |
| 91 | University students and other students |
| 92 | Military of the contingent |
| 93 | Former farmers (farmers and paid workers) |
| 94 | Retired from business |
| 95 | Retired from public service |
| 96 | Former paid employees from the private sector |
| 97 | People not working of age 17 or less |
| 98 | Other people not working between 17 to 64 years of age |
| 99 | Other people not working between 65 years of age or more |
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="FR68A414" v="FR68A405 FR68A414 FR68A437"><span class="em">Question 12: Main profession.</span><br />Attentively read the explanations and the examples given on the individual forms, as well as the instructions hereafter.<br />Examples of bad answers not to accept in any situation [left column] / Comments [right column]<br />1) Bad answers because they aren't specific enough.<br />Employee, worker, building worker, engineer, executive, director / Indicate exactly the job of the person concerned, for example: salesperson at a department store, bank employee, lathe operator, chemical engineer, plasterer, expert forester, business director.<br />Government employee, SNCF employee, EDF employee / For government employees and public service employees, specify the rank or the job, for example: representative of the prefecture, clerk of the PTT, second class stationmaster, driver of a diesel locomotive, EDF dispatcher.<br />Merchant, industrialist, farmer, entrepreneur, craftsman, administrator / Answer, for example: retail grocer, wholesaler in pharmaceutical products, masonry entrepreneur, residential building director, movie theater employee<br />2) Bad answers because they are incomplete.<br />O.S., O.P., Qualified worker, team leader, foreman / these labels indicate the situation in the professional hierarchy, but do not give any information on the individual profession of the person concerned. On the other hand, the following answers are satisfactory:<br />O.S. (specialized worker) in rope or yarn winding, textile mill foreman<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR68A406 FR68A425" v="FR68A405 FR68A406 FR68A425 FR68A438"><span class="em">Question 14: Professional status.</span><br />Category 5: "Worker at home for a total of one or more businesses" does not allow for people who work at their home for their own business (artisans, sewers, stylists). This category applies on the other hand to people who do work at their home, often as they will, for the affairs of an industrial or commercial establishment who reimburses them for this. Such is the case, for example of some newspapers designers, of people working for clothing industries or performing secretarial work for the affairs of some administrations, etc.<br /></svar>
<p><svar a="FR68A406 FR68A425" v="FR68A405 FR68A406 FR68A425 FR68A438"><span class="em">Question 14: Professional status.</span><br />Category 5: "Worker at home for a total of one or more businesses" does not allow for people who work at their home for their own business (artisans, sewers, stylists). This category applies on the other hand to people who do work at their home, often as they will, for the affairs of an industrial or commercial establishment who reimburses them for this. Such is the case, for example of some newspapers designers, of people working for clothing industries or performing secretarial work for the affairs of some administrations, etc.<br /></svar>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's socio-professional category in detail.
Universe
France 1968: All persons
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |