Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1998

Reference ID

CMR_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Ministère des Investissements Publics et de l’Aménagement du Territoire [Cameroon] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Aug 15, 2018

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Socio-professional category of respondent's occupation (C_WKJOBCAT)

Data file: CMR1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 416

End: 417

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

712A) BASED ON THE ANSWER TO 712, DETERMINE THE SOCIO-PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY AND CIRCLE THE APPROPRIATE CODE.

SALARIED

MANAGEMENT 11
SENIOR EXECUTIVE/ENGINEER 12
MIDLEVEL EXECUTIVE/SUPERVISOR 13
EMPLOYEE/QUALIFIED WORKER 14
EMPLOYEE/UNQUALIFIED WORKER 15
UNSKILLED LABORER 16

NON-SALARIED

BOSS (SMALL ENTERPRISE) 21
INDEPENDENT WORKER 22
APPRENTICE 23
FAMILY AIDE 24

OTHER (SPECIFY): ___ 96

Categories

Value	Category
10	Salaried
11	Top management
12	Supervisor
13	Middle management
14	Skilled employee
15	Unskilled employee
16	Unskilled manual laborer
20	Non-salaried
21	Small business owner
22	Self-employed
23	Apprentice
24	Family business
96	Other
97	Don't know
98	Missing
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

WKJOBCAT reports the rank (for salaried jobs) and type (e.g., non-salaried small business owner) of the respondent's occupation.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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