Census 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Canada, 2001

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Reference ID

CAN_2001_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Statistics Canada, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Occupation, ISCO general (OCCISCO)

Data file: CAN2001-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 101

End: 102

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Legislators, senior officials and managers
2	Professionals
3	Technicians and associate professionals
4	Clerks
5	Service workers and shop and market sales
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers
7	Crafts and related trades workers
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers
9	Elementary occupations
10	Armed forces
11	Other occupations, unspecified or n.e.c.
97	Response suppressed
98	Unknown
99	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.

Description

Definition

OCCISCO records the person's primary occupation, coded according to the major categories in the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) scheme for 1988. For someone with more than one job, the primary occupation is typically the one in which the person had spent the most time or earned the most money.

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Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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