Census of Population and Housing 2000 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2000

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USA_2000_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota Population Center

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Dec 23, 2014

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Occupation, ISCO general (OCCISCO)

Data file: USA2000-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 128

End: 129

Width: 2

Range: -

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Legislators, senior officials and managers
2	Professionals
3	Technicians and associate professionals
4	Clerks
5	Service workers and shop and market sales
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers
7	Crafts and related trades workers
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers
9	Elementary occupations
10	Armed forces
11	Other occupations, unspecified or n.e.c.
97	Response suppressed
98	Unknown
99	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

OCCISCO records the person's primary occupation, coded according to the major categories in the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) scheme for 1988. For someone with more than one job, the primary occupation is typically the one in which the person had spent the most time or earned the most money.

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Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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