Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009

Kenya, 2008 - 2009

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KEN_2008_DHS_v01_M

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Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Respondent's occupation (mv716)

Data file: MREC71

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 12

End: 14

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 999

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

Men who are currently working or who have worked in the last 12 months (MV731 = 1 or MV731 = 2).

Categories

Value	Category
0	Not currently working, not worked in last year
1	Armed forces
11	Government officials
12	Government administrators
13	Chief executives and Departmental managers
14	Non-departmental managers
15	Other adminstrators and managers
16	Religious worker/ volunteer/ traditional healer
21	Physicists, chemists and other related professionals
22	Mathematicians, statisticians and computer professionals
23	Architects, engineers, surveyors, cartographers
24	Health and life science professionals
25	University and other teaching professionals
26	Lawyers, jurists, judges
27	Social science and related professionals
28	Accountants, business professionals
29	Authors, journalists, sculptors, painters, composers, other artistic professionals
31	Engineering, electronic, media communication technicians
32	Medical, nursing, dental, pharmaceutical, veterinary professionals
33	Physical and life science technicians
34	Shipping officers, aviators and air traffic controller
35	Business, securities, insurance professionals
36	Mid-level personnel
37	Primary, pre-primary and other educational instructors
39	Performance workers, athletes, announcers, inspectors
41	Clerks, cashiers, secretaries, tellers, stenographers
42	Information clerks, client-related clerks
51	Shop assistants, fashion models
52	Undertakers, barbers, hairdressers, astrologers
53	Cooks, housekeepers, waiters, caterers
54	Ship/flight attendants, travel guides, transport conductors
61	Farmers, livestock, poultry, dairy workers
62	Fishery workers
63	Subsistence agriculture and fishery workers
64	Forestry workers
65	Hunting, wildlife workers
71	Mining, building trades workers
72	Blacksmiths, machinery mechanics, electrical workers
73	Potters, glassmakers, handicraft workers
74	Engravers, bookbinders, photographic workers
75	Butchers, food and drink preparers, food processing workers
76	Cabinet makers, woodworkers
77	Fiber preparers, weavers, tailors, dressmakers
78	Upholsterers, shoemakers, tanners
81	Well diggers, mineral product machine operators
82	Metal workers
83	Wood processing workers
84	Petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical plant operators
85	Power generating operators
86	Food, drink, tobacco processing machine operators
87	Machinery and product assemblers
88	Train, ship, motor vehicle drivers
89	Plant and machine operators not classified elsewhere
91	Sales and service laborers
92	Farming, forestry, fishery laborers
93	Mining, construction, manufacturing, transport laborers
94	Unclassified laborers
95	Reported currently working, but no occupation
96	Other

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.

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Notes

Respondent's occupation as collected in the country. Codes are country-specific.

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