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Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1988
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Reference ID
GHA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Woman's occupation before marriage (W_WKPREMARJOB)

Data file: GHA1988-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 331
End: 332
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
727. What was your occupation, that is, what kind of work did you do?

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Categories
Value Category
10 Did not work
20 Professional, technical, management
30 Clerical or sales
31 Clerical
32 Sales
40 Agricultural
41 Self-employed agriculture
42 Agriculture employee
50 Household, domestic, and services
51 Household and domestic
52 Services
60 Skilled and unskilled manual
61 Skill manual labor
62 Unskilled manual labor
97 Don't know
98 Missing
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
For women who worked before their first marriage, WKPREMARJOB reports their occupational sector before marriage.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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