Population Census; Building and Housing Census 1971 - IPUMS Subset

Austria, 1971

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AUT_1971_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Austrian Central Statistical Office, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Occupation of supporter: major groups (AT1971A_OCCM)

Data file: AUT1971_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 174

End: 175

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar v="AT71A420 AT71A421 AT71A418 AT71A419 AT71A422 AT71A423 AT71A424">For employed persons, active duty guardsmen, and unemployed persons [Questions 15-17 were asked of employed persons, active duty guardsman, and unemployed persons only.] </svar>

Please note the explanations on page 4 of the household list.

<svar a="all" v="AT71A420 AT71A421">15. Practiced profession: ________ <div class="i1">Please be precise. Not: "Unskilled worker", "Office employee", "civil servant", but e.g. "paint mixer", "booking/reservations machine operator", "civil servant in higher country-archive-work".</div> </svar>

<svar v="AT71A420 AT71A421">For Question 15, practiced profession: For multiple practiced professions, only answers about the main profession should be answered. This also applies to Questions 16 and 17. Unemployed persons and active duty guardsmen give answers concerning the most recently practiced profession. </svar>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Professionals, technicians and related, managers
02	Clerical occupations
03	Wholesale and retail trade occupations
04	Service occupations, armed forces
05	Transport occupations, machine operators
06	Agricultural and forestry occupations
07	Basic industry workers
08	Construction and related trades workers
09	Product manufacturing workers
10	Laborers without further details
11	Retired persons
12	Other income recipients, activity not stated

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 occupation major group of the person or the person's "supporter." The variable reports the actual status for people who were economically active. Economically inactive children reported the status of the household head or working parent, if the head did not work. Other household members reported they were inactive if they were retired or self-supporting non-workers; otherwise they reported the status of the household head.

Universe

Austria 1971: All persons

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