Demographic and Health Survey 2007

Bangladesh, 2007

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Reference ID

BGD_2007_DHS_v01_M

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Mitra and Associates/ National Institute for Population Research and Training (NIPORT)

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Respondent's occupation (mv716)

Data file: MREC71

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 12

End: 14

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 999

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Men who are currently working or who have worked in the last 12 months (MV731 = 1 or MV731 = 2).

Categories

Value	Category
0	Unemployed
11	Land Owner
12	Farmer
13	Agricultural Worker
14	Fisherman
15	Poultry, cattle raising
16	Home-based manufacturing (handicraft, food products)
21	Rickshaw driver, brick breaking, road bldg, construction worker, boatman, earth works, etc.
22	Domestic servant
23	Factory worker, blue collar service
31	Semi-skilled labor (carpenter, mason, bus/taxi driver, seamstress/tailor, policeman, armed svcs, DAI, Comm health wkr, FWA
41	Professional worker (medical, lawyer, acct, teacher, family welfare visitor, govt/private
51	Large business
52	Small business
61	Unemployed/student
62	Retired
96	Other

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.

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Notes

Respondent's occupation as collected in the country. Codes are country-specific.

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