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Federal Population Census 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Switzerland, 2000
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CHE_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Federal Statistical Office, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Position in principal employment (CH2000A_CLASSWK)

Data file: CHE2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 214
End: 214
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v=" CH00A415 CH00A416 CH00A417 CH00A418 CH00A422">Questions 15 and 16 are intended for people in employment and apprentices<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CH00A418 CH00A422">15. What is your current professional status?<br /><div class="i1">[] Self-employed without employees (own business, free-lance)<br />[] Self-employed with employees (own business, free-lance)<br />[] Relative employed in family business<br /><br />Employed as:</div><br /><div class="i2">Indicate your main job (select just one reply)<br /><br />[] Apprenticeship (indentured or not)<br />[] Employee in own corporation (e.g. stock corporation, plc)<br />[] Manager, executive employee, senior civil servant<br />[] Middle or junior level, e.g. office manager, section head, branch manager, group manager, workshop foreman, foreman<br />[] White-collar worker, blue-collar worker, trainee</div><br /><div class="i1">[] Other position, namely: ________</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Self employed
2 Employee in own company
3 Co-working family member
4 Apprentice
5 Employed in company management
6 Employed not in company management
8 Unknown
9 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 position in principal employment.
Universe
Switzerland 2000: Employed persons [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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