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Census of Population and Housing, 1972 - IPUMS Subset

Israel, 1972
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ISR_1972_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Central Bureau of Statistics - Israel, IPUMS
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Industry (IL1972A_IND)

Data file: ISR1972_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 213
End: 213
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="IL72A407 IL72A408 IL72A409 IL72A410">[Questions 1-24 asked only of those 14 years of age or older.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="IL72A422 IL72A423 IL72A424 IL72A425 IL72A426 IL72A427 IL72A428">In questions 13-21, full or part-time work for payment, profit, or other remuneration, and also work of a family member without pay in a family business will be considered as "work". Not considered as "work": work of woman in her own household.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="IL72A424 IL72A425 IL72A426 IL72A427 IL72A428">[Questions 17-21 were asked of persons age 14+ who worked and did not serve in regular or professional military service last week, per questions 13, 16]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="IL72A425 IL72A441 IL72A442 IL72A443 IL72A444 IL72A445 IL72A446 IL72A447 IL72A448"><span class="em">If you worked last week, please mark details of your main work. If you did not work last week, but worked in Israel during the last 12 months, give details of your last work.</span><br /><br />18. Where did you work?<br /><div class="i1">a. Name of place of work (name of enterprise, institution, or employer) ____<br /><div class="i2">Samples: "Jerusalem Municipality", "R. Cohen - Greengrocer", Eshkoli Factory", "Ministry of Labor", "Yefe Nof Primary School", "Private Clinic of Dr. Levy"</div><br /><br />b. Description of principal activity of the place of work ____<br /><div class="i2">Samples: Retail sale of shoes; ladies' hairdresser; manufacture of office furniture; teaching languages; raising poultry.</div><br /><br />c. Branch or division (if existing) in which you work ____<br /><div class="i2">Samples: Division of manufacture of children's wear; Division for production of refrigerators; Water department at municipality; Public works department; Antiquities department.</div><br /><br />d. Address of your place of work</div><br /><div class="i2">Write down the address you reach first on coming from home<br /><br />____ Settlement<br />____ Street/Quarter<br />____ Number of house (or identifiable adjacent place)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 Agriculture, forestry and fishing
1 Mining and quarrying
2 Industry and manufacturing
3 Construction
4 Electricity, water and sanitary services
5 Commerce
6 Transport, storage and communication
7 Services
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the industry in which a person was employed.
Universe
Israel 1972: Persons age 14+ who were in the annual labor force [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work: Industry Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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