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2015 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2011 - 2015
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Reference ID
USA_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
United States Census Bureau, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Aug 01, 2025
Last modified
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  • USA2015_PHC-P-H

Industry last week (NAICS classification) (US2015A_INDNAICS)

Data file: USA2015_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Continuous
Start: 449
End: 456
Width: 8
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[L] - Answer questions 41-46 if this person worked in the past 5 years. Otherwise, skip to question 47.</p>

<p><span class="h2">41-46 Current or most recent job activity </span>
<br />Describe clearly this person's chief job activity or business last week. If this person had more than one job, describe the one at which this person worked the most hours. If this person had no job or business last week, give information for his/her last job or business.</p>

<p>41. Was this person...
<br /><span class="ital">Mark (X) one box</span><div class="i1">[] an employee of a private for profit company or business, or of an individual, for wages, salary, or commissions?<br />[] an employee of a private not for profit, tax-exempt, or charitable organization?<br />[] a local government employee (city, county, etc.)?<br />[] a state government employee?<br />[] a Federal government employee?<br />[] Self-employed in own not incorporated business, professional practice, or farm?<br />[] Self-employed in own incorporated business, professional practice, or farm?<br />[] working without pay in family business or farm?</div><p>43. What kind of business or industry was this?
<br />Describe the activity at the location where employed. (For example: hospital, newspaper publishing, mail order house, auto engine manufacturing, bank) ________

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's industry, NAICS classification.
Universe
United States 2015: Persons age 16+ working within the last five years, not new workers [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
This is a 8-digit numeric variable with 0 implied decimal places
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