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2001 Census - IPUMS Subset

United Kingdom, 2001
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GBR_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Status in employment (class of worker), Europe (ECLASSWK)

Data file: GBR2001_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 104
End: 104
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 Employees
2 Employers
3 Own-account worker
4 Contributing family workers
5 Members of producers' co-operatives
6 Persons not classificable by status
9 Unknown
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.

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Definition
ECLASSWK refers in European Samples to the status of an economically active person with respect to his or her employment -- that is, the type of explicit or implicit contract of employment with other persons or organizations that the person has in his/her job. In general, the variable indicates whether a person was self-employed, or worked for someone else, either for pay or as an unpaid family worker.

ECLASSWK is related to EEMPSTAT (employment status), which is used to define the universe for the variable in many samples.

ECLASSWK has been classified according to the recommendations given by the Conference of European Statisticians for the 2010 Population and Housing Censuses. "Class of worker" is referred to as "Status in Employment" in the CES recommendations. The former term is used to maintain concordance with IPUMS practice.

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