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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Jul 30, 2025

Last modified

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Occupation (TZ2012A_OCC)

Data file: TZA2012_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 267

End: 268

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

26. Occupation 
<div class="i1">What type of work did [the respondent] do in the week preceding the census' night? _ _ Write and shade the appropriate code. Codes are in a separate handbook.</div>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Legislators, administrators and managers
02	Professional
03	Technicians and associate professionals
04	Clerks
05	Small business managers
06	Service workers, shop and stall sales workers
07	Street vendors and related workers
08	Crafts and related workers
09	Farmers
10	Livestock keepers
11	Fishermen
12	Plant, machine operators and assemblers inc. drivers
13	Elementary occupations
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 occupational status.

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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