2008 National Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Liberia, 2008

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Reference ID

LBR_2008_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS), IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Industry (LR2008A_IND)

Data file: LBR2008_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 226

End: 227

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h3">Persons 6 years and over</span></p>

<p><span class="em">P23. Industry </span><div class="i1">What kind of business or industry did [the respondent's] work in?</div>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Agriculture, forestry and fishing
02	Mining and quarrying
03	Manufacturing
04	Electricity, gas and water supply
05	Water supply, sewerage, waste management
06	Construction
07	Wholesale and retail trade
08	Accomodation and food service activities
09	Transport and storage
10	Information and communication
11	Financial and insurance activities
12	Administrative, support service activities
13	Real estate activities
14	Professional, scientific and technical activities
15	Public administration, defense and compulsory security social security
16	Education
17	Health, social work and personal service activities
18	Arts, entaintainment and recreation
19	Private households with employed persons
20	Extra-territorial organizations and bodies
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

This variable indicates the person's industry.

Universe

Liberia 2008: Persons age 6+ who were working [discrepancies: none]

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Concept

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