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National Population and Housing Census 1978 - IPUMS Subset

Poland, 1978
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Reference ID
POL_1978_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Office, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
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Main source of income (PL1978A_INCSRC)

Data file: POL1978_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 149
End: 149
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
16. Main source of maintenance (Encircle the relevant source).</p>
<div class="i1">For persons maintained write in the number of his (her) breadwinner (i.e. number successive in enumerating persons in dwelling)<br /><br />[] A Maintenance from work<br />[] B Maintenance not from work<br />[] C Number of breadwinner ____</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Economically active in the main source of maintenance
2 Economically active in the additional source of maintenance (with the non-earned main source of maintenance)
3 Having only non-earned source of maintenance
4 Being maintained by males who are economically active in the main source of maintenance
5 Being maintained by males who are economically active in the additional source of maintenance (with the non-earned main source of maintenance)
6 Being maintained by males who have only non-earned sources of maintences
7 Being maintained by females who are economically active in the main source of maintenance
8 Being maintained by females who are economically active in the additional source of maintenance (with the non-earned main source of maintenance)
9 Being maintained by females who have only non- earned sources of maintences
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 main source of income of the person enumerated.
Universe
Poland 1978: All persons

concept

Concept
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