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Third General Census of Population and Housing 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005
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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Class of worker (CM2005A_0505)

Data file: CMR2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 273
End: 273
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Economic activity for persons aged 6 years and above
[Questions 27 to 33 were asked of persons aged 6 years and older.]




29. In the main job held last week, was the person...?

[Question 29 was asked of persons aged 6 years and older who reported working in the last 7 days, per Question 28.]


[] A permanent wage (salary earner)
[] A temporary wage (salary earner)
[] An employer
[] An independent, self-employed worker
[] A family helper
[] A wage-earning apprentice
[] A non-wage-earning apprentice
Categories
Value Category
1 Permanent salary earner
2 Temporary salary earner
3 Employer
4 Independent or self-employed worker
5 Family helper
6 Wage-earning apprentice
7 Non-wage-earning apprentice
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.
Interviewer instructions
Questions (Questions 27-33) related to the economic activity are only ask to people 6 years old and older




29. Employment status
The status of employment, which is related to the worker's situation related to his colleagues (if he has any) in the company, is a way of categorizing the engaged active population.

The codes of the terms of employment status are:
1-Permanent salaried: This is a person who works for a public or private employer and who receives regular compensation in kind or in cash.
2-Temporary salaried: This is a person who works intermittently for a public or private employers and who receives compensation in cash or in kind.
3-An employer is a person who has his own economic enterprise and who a salaried labor force
4-Independent-This is a person who works for himself and doesn't use any salaried labor force. He can use several uncompensated family helpers or apprentices
5-Family helper-This is a person who works in a family business without compensation
6-Compensated apprentice-This is a person who is learning a trade and who recipes compensation in cash or in kind.
7-Uncompensated apprentice-This is a person who is learning a trade and who does not receive any type of compensation


Q29: What is/was the employment status of ________ in his job/his last job?
-Mark in the proper space the code for the employment status of the surveyed person.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates a person's worker class.
Universe
Residents of the household who are working or have worked in the past

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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