Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Namibia, 2019

Reference ID

NAM_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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Apr 28, 2021

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Q95c. Occupation of respondent (Q95C)

Data file: nam_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9998

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1045

End: 1048

Width: 4

Range: 0 - 9998

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

95c. What is your main occupation?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Never had a job	315	26.3%
1	Student	145	12.1%
2	Housewife / homemaker	42	3.5%
3	Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry	49	4.1%
4	Trader / hawker / vendor	37	3.1%
5	Retail / Shop	92	7.7%
6	Unskilled manual worker (e.g., cleaner, laborer, domestic help, unskilled manufacturing worker)	186	15.5%
7	Artisan or skilled manual worker (e.g., trades like electrician, mechanic, machinist or skilled manufacturing worker)	86	7.2%
8	Clerical or secretarial	19	1.6%
9	Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager	22	1.8%
10	Security services (police, army, private security)	65	5.4%
11	Mid-level professional (e.g., teacher, nurse, mid-level government officer)	79	6.6%
12	Upper-level professional (e.g., banker/finance, doctor, lawyer, engineer, accountant, professor, senior-level government	48	4%
9995	Other	13	1.1%
9998	Refused	2	0.2%
9999	Don’t know	0	0%

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.

Interviewer instructions

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Question post text

If unemployed, retired, or disabled, ask: "What was your last main occupation?"

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