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World Health Survey 2003

Latvia, 2003
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LVA_2003_WHS_v01_M
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main occupation (q1013)

Data file: WHS-Latvia_F5

Overview

Valid: 341
Invalid: 515
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 2
Start: 90
End: 94
Width: 5
Range: 1 - 10
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Respondent’s Socio Demographic Characteristics
Now, I would like to ask you a few questions about your work status.
Literal question
During the last 12 months, what has been your main occupation?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Legislator, Senior Official, or Manager 8
2.3%
2 Professional 41
12%
3 Technician or Associate Professional 33
9.7%
4 Clerk 34
10%
5 Service or sales worker 79
23.2%
6 Agricultural or fishery worker 12
3.5%
7 Craft or trades worker 31
9.1%
8 Plant/machine operator or assembler 32
9.4%
9 Elementary worker 68
19.9%
10 Armed forces 3
0.9%
Sysmiss 515
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
The Interviewer should ask this question open-endedly: “What is your main occupation?”. The interviewer then selects the category that they think best applies, and confirms it with the respondent.
By “main occupation”, we mean the occupation that the person spent the most time doing over the last 12 months. The following definitions should be used.
• Legislator, Senior Official, or Manager: Examples of occupations in this category include legislators; senior government officials; chiefs or heads of villages; senior officials of political parties or workers unions; and directors, chief executives or department managers who manage
enterprises, organizations or departments that are large enough to require three or more managers.
• Professional, Technician, or Associate Professional: Examples of occupations in this category include occupations in the physical mathematical and engineering sciences, architects, engineers, health professionals, teachers, lawyers, social scientists, writers or performing artists, ship and aircraft controllers and technicians, financial agents, trade brokers,
accountants and bookkeepers.
• Clerical: Examples of occupations in this category include secretaries, keyboard operators, stock clerks scribes, office assistants, cashiers, and receptionists.
• Personal Services, Marketing, or Sales: Examples of occupations in this category include travel attendants, restaurant workers, personal care workers, barbers, undertakers, astrologers, fire-fighters, police officers, models, salespersons.
• Agricultural or Fisheries Worker: Examples of occupations in this category include gardeners and crop growers, livestock, dairy, and poultry producers, forestry workers and loggers, hunters, and fishery workers.
• Craft, Construction, or Trades: Examples of occupations in this category include miners, shot firers, stone cutters, and carvers; construction workers, metal moulders, welders, sheet-metal workers, blacksmiths, tool-makers, electrical and electronic equipment mechanics and fitters, potters, glass-makers, handicraft workers in wood, textile, leather and related materials, printing, food processing, textile and garment workers.
• Plant and Machine Operators or Assemblers: Examples of occupations in this category include processing-plant operators, power production operators, assembly-line operators, machine operators, assemblers, and motor-vehicle drivers.
• Armed Forces: Examples of occupations in this category include anyone who is employed as a member of military service of the country.

If respondent has answered this question, Go to next section 2000.
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