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1971 Census - IPUMS Subset

United Kingdom, 1971
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Reference ID
GBR_1971_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Office of Population and Surveys for England and Wales, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Occupation (UK1971A_OCC)

Data file: GBR1971_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 90
End: 90
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">Answer questions B15-B17 in respect of the main employment last week, or of the most recent job if retired or out of work.</span></p>

<p><span class="ital">For persons who have never had a job and for a housewife who did not have a job last week write 'none' in B15. </span></p>

<p>B16.</p>
<div class="i1">________ a) What was the person's occupation? Give full details. (See note B16).<br />________ b) Describe the actual work done in that occupation.</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Professional or managerial occupations
2 Intermediate occupations
3 Non-manual skilled occupations
4 Manual skilled occupations
5 Partly skilled occupations
6 Unskilled occupations
7 Armed forces
8 Unknown
9 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 occupation.
Universe
United Kingdom 1971: Persons age 15+ ever employed [discrepancies: none]

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Concept
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