Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Kenya, 2019

Reference ID

KEN_2019_AFB-R8_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)

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Afrobarometer

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Q95c. Occupation of respondent (Q95C)

Data file: ken_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: -1

Maximum: 9999

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1117

End: 1120

Width: 4

Range: -1 - 9999

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

95C. What is your main occupation? [If unemployed, retired, or disabled, ask:] What was your last main occupation?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	1	0%
0	Never had a job	160	6.7%
1	Student	232	9.7%
2	Housewife / homemaker	140	5.8%
3	Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry	604	25.2%
4	Trader / hawker / vendor	405	16.9%
5	Retail / Shop	75	3.1%
6	Unskilled manual worker (e.g., cleaner, laborer, domestic help, unskilled manufacturing worker)	226	9.4%
7	Artisan or skilled manual worker (e.g., trades like electrician, mechanic, machinist or skilled manufacturing worker)	213	8.9%
8	Clerical or secretarial	24	1%
9	Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager	27	1.1%
10	Security services (police, army, private security)	35	1.5%
11	Mid-level professional (e.g., teacher, nurse, mid-level government officer)	169	7%
12	Upper-level professional (e.g., banker/finance, doctor, lawyer, engineer, accountant, professor, senior-level government	59	2.5%
9995	Other	22	0.9%
9998	Refused	4	0.2%
9999	Don’t know	4	0.2%

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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