Census of Population of Ireland 2002 - IPUMS Subset

Ireland, 2002

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IRL_2002_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Central Statistics Office, Minnesota Population Center

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Social class (IE2002A_0423)

Data file: IRL2002-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 222

End: 222

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Social class

Categories

Value	Category
1	Professional workers
2	Managerial and technical
3	Non-manual
4	Skilled manual
5	Semi-skilled
6	Unskilled
8	Unknown
9	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

Questions 26 to 31 are to be answered by persons who are working for payment or profit, unemployed or retired (i.e., those who have ticked boxes 1, 3, or 6 for question 24).

27. What is (was) your occupation in your main job?

In all cases describe the occupation fully and precisely giving the full job title.

Write your main OCCUPATION. _______
If a farmer or farm worker, write the SIZE of the farm.
_ _ _ _ Acres OR _ _ _ _ Hectares

The information that Question 27 will provide is used to build a picture of occupational groups and how occupations are changing over time.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's social class, which is based on the person's current occupation, previous occupation or occupation of a family supporter.

Universe

Persons present

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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