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Census of Population and Housing 1990 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1990
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USA_1990_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota Population Center
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Class of worker (US1990A_0456)

Data file: USA1990-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 289
End: 290
Width: 2
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
30. Was this person -- Fill one circle

[] Employee of a private for profit company or business or of an individual, for wages, salary, or commissions
[] Employee of a private not-for-profit, tax-exempt, or charitable organization
[] Local government employee (city, county, etc.)
[] State government employee
[] Federal government employee
[] Self-employed in own not incorporated business, professional practice, or farm
[] Self-employed in own incorporated business, professional practice, or farm
[] Working without pay in family business or farm


[Mark Employee of a private not-for-profit organization if the person worked for a cooperative, credit union, mutual insurance company, or similar organization. Employees of foreign governments, the United Nations, and other international organizations should mark private not-for-profit organization. For persons who worked at a public school, college or university, mark the appropriate government category; for example, mark State government employee for a state university, or mark Local government employee for a county-run community college or a city-run public school.]
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
13 Self-employed, not incorporated
14 Self-employed, incorporated
22 Wage/salary, private
23 Wage/salary at non-profit
25 Federal government employee
27 State government employee
28 Local government employee
29 Unpaid family worker
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 whether respondents worked for their own enterprise(s) or for someone else as employees.
Universe
Persons age 16+ who had worked within the previous five years

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Concept
Name Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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