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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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Occupation (IL1972A_OCC)

Data file: ISR1972_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 216
End: 216
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="IL72A427">20. What is the principal work at your place of work?<br /><div class="i1">A. Describe your work ____</div><br /><div class="i2">Examples: owner of grocery; filing; directing a team of carpenters; recording goods; aircraft maintenance technician; surgeon</div><br /><div class="i1">B. Description of position (if existing) ____</div><br /><div class="i2">Samples: Director of Finance Division; Secretary (female) of board of directors; Chief Sanitary Inspector; Head of team of Technicians</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 Professional, scientific and technical workers
1 Administrative, executive, managerial and clerical workers
2 Sales workers
3 Farmers, fisherman and related workers
4 Workers in transport and communication occupations
5 Construction workers, mines, quarrymen and related workers
6 Craftsmen, production process workers and laborers
7 Service, sport and recreation workers
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 person's occupation.
Universe
Israel 1972: Persons age 14+ who were in the annual labor force [discrepancies: none]

concept

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