Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1988

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Reference ID

GHA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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Woman's occupation before marriage (W_WKPREMARJOB)

Data file: GHA1988-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 331

End: 332

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

727. What was your occupation, that is, what kind of work did you do?

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Categories

Value	Category
10	Did not work
20	Professional, technical, management
30	Clerical or sales
31	Clerical
32	Sales
40	Agricultural
41	Self-employed agriculture
42	Agriculture employee
50	Household, domestic, and services
51	Household and domestic
52	Services
60	Skilled and unskilled manual
61	Skill manual labor
62	Unskilled manual labor
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

For women who worked before their first marriage, WKPREMARJOB reports their occupational sector before marriage.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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