General Population Census of 1975 - IPUMS Subset
France, 1975
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FRA_1975_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 (FR1975A_OCC)
Data file: FRA1975_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
198
End:
199
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar v="FR75A405 FR75A406 FR75A407 FR75A408 FR75A409 FR75A410 FR75A411 FR75A412 FR75A418 FR75A419 FR75A422 FR75A425 FR75A426 FR75A427 FR75A428 FR75A432 FR75A433 FR75A435 FR75A438 FR75A439 FR75A440 FR75A441"><span class="em">For all people 16 years of age or older</span><br />[Applies to questions 8 -18]<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="FR75A419 FR75A439"><span class="h3">11. Main profession</span><br /><br />Indicate the profession or the career that you currently practice<br />(even if you still only an apprentice or if you work by helping a member of your family in his or her profession). A woman who only takes care of her home will answer "without profession".<br /><br /><div class="i1">____</div><br /><br />Be specific: Examples: mechanic (automobile repairman, clothing maker, carpenter in iron, fitter in central heating, building painter, industrial designer, electrical engineer, wine-grower, driver of heavy loads, shorthand typist, whole-sale drugs, etc.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A441" v="FR75A418 FR75A419 FR75A441"><span class="h3">13.</span> Do you practice your main declared profession as:<br /><br /><div class="i1">[] 2 Farmer<br />[] 3 Member of a free-market profession<br />[] 4 Employer or self-employed worker: artisan, merchant, industrial worker, etc. (working for yourself, including managers of the S.A.R.L [<span class="lang">Société responsabilité limitée</span>] and people not working except on commission)<br />[] 5 Working at home for yourself for one (or more) companies<br />[] 6 Apprenticed under contract<br />[] 7 Paid</div><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A410" v="FR75A410 FR75A419 FR75A441"><span class="h3">14. For paid workers:</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">a. If you are a worker, specify the qualification of your current job:</div><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Unskilled or specialized laborer<br />[] 2 Specialized worker (OS1, OS2)<br />[] 3 Skilled worker or highly qualified (P1, P2, P3...)</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">b. If you are a state employee, from a local city or a public service (E.D.F. <span class="lang">Electricité de France</span>, S.N.C.F, <span class="lang">Société nationale des chemins de fer</span> etc.) or military by career, specify your rank:<br />Examples: principal administration agent, administrative secretary, stationmaster of the second class, etc.<br />____<br /><br />c. If you are in a different situation, specify your hierarchical position:<br />Examples: supervisor, head farmer, head of a department store, business director, etc.<br />____</div><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A409 FR75A412" v="FR75A409 FR75A412 FR75A418 FR75A419 FR75A439 FR75A440 FR75A441"><span class="h3">17. If you are currently without work and if you are looking for some:</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">a. For how long have you been looking for work?</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 less than 3 months<br />[] 2 3 to less than 6 months<br />[] 3 6 months to less than a year<br />[] 4 one year or more</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">b. Have you already worked?</div><br /><div class="i2">[] Yes<br />[] No</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">c. What is your career? ____</div><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar v="FR75A409 FR75A419 FR75A439 FR75A441"><span class="h3">18. If you do not work anymore:</span><br /><br />(You are, for example, retired from public service, a retired worker, retired executive, former farmer, retired from business, etc.)<br /><br /><div class="i1">What was your principal profession? ____</div><br /></svar>
<p><svar a="all" v="FR75A419 FR75A439"><span class="h3">11. Main profession</span><br /><br />Indicate the profession or the career that you currently practice<br />(even if you still only an apprentice or if you work by helping a member of your family in his or her profession). A woman who only takes care of her home will answer "without profession".<br /><br /><div class="i1">____</div><br /><br />Be specific: Examples: mechanic (automobile repairman, clothing maker, carpenter in iron, fitter in central heating, building painter, industrial designer, electrical engineer, wine-grower, driver of heavy loads, shorthand typist, whole-sale drugs, etc.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A441" v="FR75A418 FR75A419 FR75A441"><span class="h3">13.</span> Do you practice your main declared profession as:<br /><br /><div class="i1">[] 2 Farmer<br />[] 3 Member of a free-market profession<br />[] 4 Employer or self-employed worker: artisan, merchant, industrial worker, etc. (working for yourself, including managers of the S.A.R.L [<span class="lang">Société responsabilité limitée</span>] and people not working except on commission)<br />[] 5 Working at home for yourself for one (or more) companies<br />[] 6 Apprenticed under contract<br />[] 7 Paid</div><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A410" v="FR75A410 FR75A419 FR75A441"><span class="h3">14. For paid workers:</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">a. If you are a worker, specify the qualification of your current job:</div><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Unskilled or specialized laborer<br />[] 2 Specialized worker (OS1, OS2)<br />[] 3 Skilled worker or highly qualified (P1, P2, P3...)</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">b. If you are a state employee, from a local city or a public service (E.D.F. <span class="lang">Electricité de France</span>, S.N.C.F, <span class="lang">Société nationale des chemins de fer</span> etc.) or military by career, specify your rank:<br />Examples: principal administration agent, administrative secretary, stationmaster of the second class, etc.<br />____<br /><br />c. If you are in a different situation, specify your hierarchical position:<br />Examples: supervisor, head farmer, head of a department store, business director, etc.<br />____</div><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A409 FR75A412" v="FR75A409 FR75A412 FR75A418 FR75A419 FR75A439 FR75A440 FR75A441"><span class="h3">17. If you are currently without work and if you are looking for some:</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">a. For how long have you been looking for work?</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 less than 3 months<br />[] 2 3 to less than 6 months<br />[] 3 6 months to less than a year<br />[] 4 one year or more</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">b. Have you already worked?</div><br /><div class="i2">[] Yes<br />[] No</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">c. What is your career? ____</div><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar v="FR75A409 FR75A419 FR75A439 FR75A441"><span class="h3">18. If you do not work anymore:</span><br /><br />(You are, for example, retired from public service, a retired worker, retired executive, former farmer, retired from business, etc.)<br /><br /><div class="i1">What was your principal profession? ____</div><br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 00 | Farmers |
| 10 | Agricultural employees |
| 21 | Industrial workers |
| 22 | Artisans |
| 23 | Fishers |
| 26 | Whole-sale merchants |
| 27 | Small merchants |
| 30 | Free professions |
| 32 | Professors, literary and scientifc professions |
| 33 | Engineers |
| 34 | Administrative executives |
| 41 | Instructors, diverse intellectual professions |
| 42 | Medical and social services |
| 43 | Technicians |
| 44 | Medium-level administrative executives |
| 51 | Office employees |
| 53 | Merchant employees |
| 60 | Supervisors |
| 61 | Skilled workers |
| 63 | Specialized unskilled workers |
| 65 | Miners |
| 66 | Boatment and fishermen |
| 67 | Apprenticed workers |
| 68 | Manoeuvres |
| 70 | House servants |
| 71 | Housewives |
| 72 | Other service personnel |
| 80 | Artists |
| 81 | Clergy |
| 82 | Army and police |
| 91 | High school and college students |
| 92 | Military of the contingent |
| 93 | Former farmers (farmer and workers) |
| 94 | Retired from business |
| 95 | Retired from the public sector |
| 96 | Former employees from the public sector |
| 97 | Non active people from 17 to 64 years of age |
| 98 | Other people not active from 17 to 64 years of age |
| 99 | Other people not active from 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 v="FR75A405 FR75A406 FR75A408 FR75A409 FR75A410 FR75A412 FR75A418 FR75A419 FR75A422 FR75A425 FR75A426 FR75A427 FR75A428 FR75A432 FR75A433 FR75A435 FR75A438 FR75A439 FR75A440 FR75A441">[Questions 8 - 18 are for persons age 16 or older]<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="FR75A419 FR75A439"><span class="em">Question 11: Main profession.</span><br />Attentively read the explanations and the examples given on the individual forms, as well as the instructions hereafter.<br /><span class="em">Note:</span><br /><span class="em">a) If a profession has been declared on question 11:</span><br />- make sure that one of the six boxes of question 13a has been checked, at least box 1 of question 12 has not been;<br />- make sure that the salaried people (answer 7 of question 13) have answered correctly questions 14a, 14b, or 14c ;<br />- make sure that question 16 has been correctly filled out (see question 16 page 57): especially make sure that questions 16a, 16b, and 16 are always filled out, even for people who work in an administrative service and especially for government employees.<br /><span class="em">b) If no profession has been declared for question 11 and if the person concerned is 16 or older:</span><br />Refer to questions 17 and 18 to see if there is an answer indicated there.<br />If none of questions 17 to 18 have received an answer, Make sure that is the real situation of the person concerned and:<br />- if there is no professional activity, mention in great detail "without profession" on question 11.<br />- if he currently practices a profession which he would have forgotten to declare it, ask him to answer questions 11 to 16 of his individual form.<br /><span class="pg">[p.55]</span><br />Examples of bad answers not to accept in any situation. [left column] / Remarks [right column]<br /><span class="em">1) Bad answers because they aren't specific enough.</span><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 /><span class="em">2) Bad answers because they are incomplete.</span><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. (ouvrier specialisé) in rope or yarn winding, textile mill foreman<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A441" v="FR75A418 FR75A419 FR75A441"><span class="em">Question 13: 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 />Paid managers should check box 7 even when they are partially reimbursed in the form of commiseration.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A410" v="FR75A410 FR75A419 FR75A441"><span class="em">Question 14: Certification</span><br />Make sure that the people who have declared to be salaried on question 13 specify their certification, rank or hierarchical position on questions 14a, 14b or 14c, according to the situation.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A409 FR75A412" v="FR75A409 FR75A412 FR75A418 FR75A419 FR75A439 FR75A440 FR75A441"><span class="em">Question 17: The case of the unemployed and those who are looking for work.</span><br />This question concerns all people having or having not already worked, who fulfill the following conditions simultaneously:<br />a) do not have a job:<br />b) are actively looking for work.<br />Do not apply to these people the label "unemployed" which is sometimes judged offensive and which has a slightly different connotation.<br /></svar>
<p><svar a="all" v="FR75A419 FR75A439"><span class="em">Question 11: Main profession.</span><br />Attentively read the explanations and the examples given on the individual forms, as well as the instructions hereafter.<br /><span class="em">Note:</span><br /><span class="em">a) If a profession has been declared on question 11:</span><br />- make sure that one of the six boxes of question 13a has been checked, at least box 1 of question 12 has not been;<br />- make sure that the salaried people (answer 7 of question 13) have answered correctly questions 14a, 14b, or 14c ;<br />- make sure that question 16 has been correctly filled out (see question 16 page 57): especially make sure that questions 16a, 16b, and 16 are always filled out, even for people who work in an administrative service and especially for government employees.<br /><span class="em">b) If no profession has been declared for question 11 and if the person concerned is 16 or older:</span><br />Refer to questions 17 and 18 to see if there is an answer indicated there.<br />If none of questions 17 to 18 have received an answer, Make sure that is the real situation of the person concerned and:<br />- if there is no professional activity, mention in great detail "without profession" on question 11.<br />- if he currently practices a profession which he would have forgotten to declare it, ask him to answer questions 11 to 16 of his individual form.<br /><span class="pg">[p.55]</span><br />Examples of bad answers not to accept in any situation. [left column] / Remarks [right column]<br /><span class="em">1) Bad answers because they aren't specific enough.</span><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 /><span class="em">2) Bad answers because they are incomplete.</span><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. (ouvrier specialisé) in rope or yarn winding, textile mill foreman<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A441" v="FR75A418 FR75A419 FR75A441"><span class="em">Question 13: 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 />Paid managers should check box 7 even when they are partially reimbursed in the form of commiseration.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A410" v="FR75A410 FR75A419 FR75A441"><span class="em">Question 14: Certification</span><br />Make sure that the people who have declared to be salaried on question 13 specify their certification, rank or hierarchical position on questions 14a, 14b or 14c, according to the situation.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="FR75A409 FR75A412" v="FR75A409 FR75A412 FR75A418 FR75A419 FR75A439 FR75A440 FR75A441"><span class="em">Question 17: The case of the unemployed and those who are looking for work.</span><br />This question concerns all people having or having not already worked, who fulfill the following conditions simultaneously:<br />a) do not have a job:<br />b) are actively looking for work.<br />Do not apply to these people the label "unemployed" which is sometimes judged offensive and which has a slightly different connotation.<br /></svar>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's socio-professional category.
Universe
France 1975: All persons
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |