2012 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2012

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Reference ID

TZA_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Industry (TZ2012A_IND)

Data file: TZA2012_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 269

End: 270

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

D. Economic activity: All persons aged 5 years and above
 [Questions 23-27 were asked of persons aged 5+]

Economic activity

27. Industry
<div class="i1">What is the main activity at [the respondent's] place of work for the week preceding the census' night? _ _ Write and shade the appropriate code. Codes are in a separate handbook.</div>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Agriculture, commercial and food crops
02	Forestry, fishing, hunting, livestock and other related
03	Mining and quarryig
04	Manufacturing
05	Electricity , gas and water
06	Services for clean water, sewage and environment
07	All types of construction
08	Raw food sales (uncooked food)
09	Trade and commerce
10	Storage and haulage
11	Services for food, hotels and lodges
12	Communication and transport
13	Financial institution and insurance
14	Public administration and security services
15	Education services at all levels
16	Health and social welfare services
17	Domestic services
18	Other activities not listed
98	Unknown
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

This variable indicates the person's industry.

Universe

Tanzania 2012: Persons age 5+ who were economically active in the last week [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept

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