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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Class of worker (US2000A_0454)

Data file: USA2000-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 305

End: 306

Width: 2

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

18. Was this person under 15 years of age on April 1, 2000?

[] Yes [Go on to question 33]
[] No

29. Was this person - Mark [X] one box.

[] 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

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, not new workers

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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