Census of Population, Housing and Agriculture 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Zambia, 1990

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Reference ID

ZMB_1990_CPHA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

Producer(s)

Central Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center

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Agricultural Censuses

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Occupation, unrecoded (OCC)

Data file: ZMB1990-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 156

End: 159

Width: 4

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

OCC records the person's primary occupation, classified according to the system used by the respective national census office at the time. For someone with more than one job, the primary occupation is usually the one in which the person spent the most time or earned the most money, although this may not have been explicit in the instructions for a specific census.

To ensure confidentiality, very small occupations are recoded to a residual category indicating the persons had an occupation, but the job title is not identified. The number of cases recoded should be too small to affect analyses.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

OCC is a 4-digit numeric variable.

Some samples use fewer than 4 digits. In those cases, the data are right-justified, and the extra leading digits are padded with zeroes.

Please see the codes for: ZM1990A_0428

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