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Population and Housing Census 1989 - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 1989
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VNM_1989_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 1989 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., Minnesota Population Center
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Occupation, 2 digits (VN1989A_0416)

Data file: VNM1989-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 158
End: 159
Width: 2
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
For persons born on or before 1-4-1984 [it should say 1976] (aged 13 and over) answer following questions [applies to questions 9 to 13]



12. Main occupation

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Categories
Value Category
1 Office chief
2 Factory chief
3 State finance, economics, and planning
4 Technical staff
5 Agricultures staff
6 Science education
7 Art culture
8 Medical science
9 Law
10 Secretary, clerk
11 Energy
12 Mining
13 Metallurgy
14 Electronic, mechanics
15 Chemical industry
16 Paper industry
17 Building glass mater
18 Wood industry
19 Printing publishing
20 Weaving industry
21 Clothing industry
22 Leather wool
23 Food
24 Building
25 Agriculture
26 Forestry
27 Fishing
28 Transport
29 Tele communication
30 Dockers carriers
31 Seller supplier
32 Public service
33 Others
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.
Interviewer instructions
Persons born before April 1st, 1976 (aged 13 and older) answer this question.



12. Main occupation
Persons who work 6 months or more or have permanent job less than 6 months, work temporarily less than 6 months answer this question.

Main occupation is a job that occupies most of the person's time in the last 12 months. If a person has various income generating activities, interviewers write down the job of which the person works the longest time.

For persons who just started a new job and plan to keep that job for a long time, interviewers fill out that new job.

For commune's (ward's) cadres, if they do not participate in any other productive activities, interviewers fill out their current positions or jobs, such as secretary of the commune's communist party, president, vice-president, health care staff, etc. If the commune's (ward's) cadres work on other productive activities besides their work at the commune's (ward's) people committee, interviewers write down the activity occupying the longest time. For example, a commune's statistical staff usually works for 4 days on his/her statistic job and spends 2 days for his/her own family farming activities, that person's main job is "statistics".

Cadres who are permanent government employees and are assigned to work at the commune's level report their own profession.

For management levels, head (vice-head) of the department/bureau and higher positions at the Communist party institutions, government offices, mass organizations, other parties; head (vice head) of departments in factories, should report both their main occupation and current main positions.

Main occupations should be reported with as much detail as possible, do not put in very general activity. For example,

For farmers, do not just write down as "farming" or "working in rice-field" or "cultivation", interviewers need to write specific activities, such as "cultivating rice", "growing tea leaves", and "raising pigs", etc.
For workers, do not write down "textile worker" or "weaving", interviewers need to write "operating textile machine", "reeling threat fiber", "making silk", etc.
For service and commercial employees, do not just write down "seller" or "repairing", interviewers need to write down "casher in super market", "selling hardware", "repairing bicycle", "repairing glasses", etc.
For workers in private sectors, do not just write down "hired" or "worker", interviewers need to write down "nanny", "cook", etc.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the main occupation of the person.
Universe
Persons age 13+ who worked

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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