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Integrated Household Panel Survey 2010-2013-2016-2019 (Long-Term Panel, 102 EAs)

Malawi, 2010 - 2019
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MWI_2010-2019_IHPS_v06_M
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https://doi.org/10.48529/q5q1-2a34
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O10a. What is the current main occupation of [NAME]? (hh_o10a)

Data file: hh_mod_o_19

Overview

Valid: 651
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 135
End: 226
Width: 92
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
##N/A## 1
0.2%
A Maid 1
0.2%
A Sheikh and he teaches Madrassah 1
0.2%
A primary School Teacher 1
0.2%
ACCOUNTANT 2
0.3%
AGRICULTURAL PERSONAL 1
0.2%
AGRICULTURE EXTENSION OFFICER 1
0.2%
AT A BURNING CENTRE 1
0.2%
Account 1
0.2%
Accountant 1
0.2%
Accountant at Ryalls hotel 1
0.2%
Admarck in mzedi 1
0.2%
Administrator at sos 1
0.2%
Air hostess 1
0.2%
Airtel money agant 1
0.2%
BRICK LAYER 1
0.2%
BUILDER 1
0.2%
BUSINESS 4
0.6%
Banana selling 1
0.2%
Bank Manager 1
0.2%
Barbershop attendant 1
0.2%
Barbershop operator 1
0.2%
Brick laying 4
0.6%
Builder 9
1.4%
Business 3
0.5%
Business lady 3
0.5%
Business man, sells clothes 2
0.3%
Business man... Sells clothes 1
0.2%
Business's 1
0.2%
Businessman 3
0.5%
Buying and selling pegion peas. 1
0.2%
CARE TAKER 1
0.2%
CARPENTER 1
0.2%
CHARCOAL BUSINES 1
0.2%
COOKIE 1
0.2%
COOKING OIL PRODUCTION MACHINE OPERATOR 1
0.2%
COURT MESSENGER 1
0.2%
Carpenter 3
0.5%
Carpentry 1
0.2%
Cashier 1
0.2%
Cashier in Metro 1
0.2%
Civil Engineer 1
0.2%
Cleaner 2
0.3%
Cleaner at a Private school 1
0.2%
Clerical 1
0.2%
Clerk 1
0.2%
Clinic Officer in lilongwe in likuni 1
0.2%
Conductor of Mini bus 1
0.2%
Construction 1
0.2%
Cook 2
0.3%
Cowboy 2
0.3%
DECORATION 1
0.2%
DON'T KNOW 2
0.3%
DRIVER 8
1.2%
Doctor 1
0.2%
Doctor at nkhotakota district 1
0.2%
Domestic worker 1
0.2%
Don't know 6
0.9%
Don't know type of job she does 1
0.2%
Don't know the occupation 1
0.2%
Drilling borehhole 1
0.2%
Driver 12
1.8%
Driver at MP Sidik Mia 1
0.2%
ESCOM 1
0.2%
Electrician 3
0.5%
Electronics repairer 1
0.2%
FARMER AT LISANDWA4 ESTATE 1
0.2%
FARMING 1
0.2%
FUEL ATTENDANT 2
0.3%
Farm Labour 1
0.2%
Farm Manager 1
0.2%
Farming 1
0.2%
Field Officer 1
0.2%
Field Supervisor at buidon 1
0.2%
Fuel Attendant 1
0.2%
GANYU LABOUR 2
0.3%
GARDEN BOY 6
0.9%
GAS WELDER 1
0.2%
GENERAL WORKER 1
0.2%
GOVERNMENT PRIMARY TEACHER 1
0.2%
GROUND LABOURER 2
0.3%
GUARD AT WATERBOARD 1
0.2%
Garden boy 6
0.9%
Ground Worker 1
0.2%
Ground labour - Chikwawa District Council 1
0.2%
Ground work 1
0.2%
Guard 1
0.2%
Guitarist 1
0.2%
HE WORKS AT BREAD BAKERY IN SOUTH AFRICA.HE WORKS AS DELIVERING OF BREAD TO DIFFERENT SHOP. 1
0.2%
HE WORKS AT GREENBELT FOR WEEDING SUGARCANE. 1
0.2%
HE WORKS IN A FACTORY WHERE THEY MAKE CHAPATI 1
0.2%
HOUSE GAL 1
0.2%
HOUSE MAID 2
0.3%
HOUSE WORKER 2
0.3%
HOUSEHOLD CHORES AT KAMUZU BARRACKS 1
0.2%
HOUSEMAID 1
0.2%
HOUSEWORKER 1
0.2%
HSA 1
0.2%
HUMAN RESOURCE 1
0.2%
He is a Welder 1
0.2%
He is a cook at Zamzam 1
0.2%
He is a secondary school teacher 1
0.2%
He is primary school teacher 1
0.2%
He is working as a maize mill oparater 1
0.2%
He works as a labour in the garden 1
0.2%
Health Assistant 1
0.2%
Hospital attendant 1
0.2%
Hotel Mananger 1
0.2%
House boy 2
0.3%
House maid 1
0.2%
House work 1
0.2%
Houseboy 1
0.2%
Household guard 1
0.2%
Housework 1
0.2%
IN AN INDIAN SHOP 1
0.2%
Islamic teacher 1
0.2%
Jonalist 1
0.2%
KABAZA 1
0.2%
KABAZA DRIVER 1
0.2%
KANENGO AUCTION 2
0.3%
LABORATORY ASSISTANT 1
0.2%
LABOURER 2
0.3%
LABOURER AT A GRAIN MILL COMPANY 1
0.2%
LABOURER AT DWANGWA SUGAR COMPANY 1
0.2%
Labour work 2
0.3%
Labourer 8
1.2%
Leaf checker 1
0.2%
Lecture 1
0.2%
Lecture at college of medicine 1
0.2%
MAID 1
0.2%
MECHANIC 4
0.6%
MECHANIC ENGINEER 1
0.2%
MECHANICAL 1
0.2%
MINIBUS DRIVER 1
0.2%
Machine Operator 1
0.2%
Maid 2
0.3%
Maize mill assistant 1
0.2%
Malawi defense force 1
0.2%
Manager 1
0.2%
Marketing Manager 1
0.2%
Mechanic 2
0.3%
Midwife 1
0.2%
Minbus conductor 1
0.2%
Minibus Driver 1
0.2%
Motor car Driver 1
0.2%
Motorvehicle mechanic 1
0.2%
NURSE 1
0.2%
National Insurance Company 1
0.2%
Not known 2
0.3%
Nurse 4
0.6%
OIL ATTENDANT AT THE FILLING STATION 1
0.2%
Office Clerk 1
0.2%
Oil Com 1
0.2%
PAINTER 1
0.2%
PHONE REPAIR 1
0.2%
POLICE CONSTABLE AT NTCHEU POLICE 1
0.2%
POLICE OFFICER 1
0.2%
POLICE TRAFFIC 1
0.2%
PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER 8
1.2%
PRIMARY TEACHER 3
0.5%
Panel beater and spray painter 1
0.2%
Pastor 1
0.2%
Patient attendant 1
0.2%
Pest Control services 1
0.2%
Piece works 1
0.2%
Police officer 2
0.3%
PoliceMan 1
0.2%
Pottery 1
0.2%
Primary school teacher 1
0.2%
Primary School Teacher 2
0.3%
Primary School teacher 1
0.2%
Primary Teacher 1
0.2%
Primary school teacher 2
0.3%
Primary school teacher 7
1.1%
Primary teacher 1
0.2%
RECEPTIONIST 3
0.5%
RESEARCH ASSISTANT 1
0.2%
Rainbow paint company driver 1
0.2%
Regional Marketing Manager ( British America Tobacco) 1
0.2%
Runs Barbershop 1
0.2%
SALES FISH 1
0.2%
SALES IN AN INDIAN SHOP 1
0.2%
SALES MAN IN WHOLE SALES SHOP 1
0.2%
SALESLADY 1
0.2%
SALONISTS 1
0.2%
SALOONIST 1
0.2%
SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER 2
0.3%
SECURITY GUARD 3
0.5%
SELLING CLOTHES 1
0.2%
SELLING GROCERIES IN RETAIL SHOP SOUTH AFRICA 1
0.2%
SELLING IN TEXTILE SHOPS IN SOUTH AFRICA 1
0.2%
SELLING VEGETABLES 1
0.2%
SHE DOMESTIC WORKER AT HOUSE OF MR KUMNONGERA AT KAMPHATA TRADING CENTRE. 1
0.2%
SHOP KEEPER 1
0.2%
SHOP ASISTANT 1
0.2%
SHOP ASSISTANT 7
1.1%
SHOP KEEPER 10
1.5%
SHOP. ASSISTANT 1
0.2%
SHOP.ASSISTANT 1
0.2%
SHOPKEEPER 5
0.8%
SHORP KEEPER 1
0.2%
SOLDIER 1
0.2%
SOUSE. HOLD HELPER 1
0.2%
SUGARCANE CUTTER AT DWANGWA 1
0.2%
Sale Man in A shop 1
0.2%
Sales agent 1
0.2%
Sales lady at airtel shop 1
0.2%
Sales man 1
0.2%
Sales worker 1
0.2%
Salesman (at a Burundian shop) 1
0.2%
Saw mill operator for timber making 1
0.2%
Secondary teacher 1
0.2%
Secondary school Teacher 1
0.2%
Secondary school headmaster 1
0.2%
Secretary 2
0.3%
Secretary for the institution 1
0.2%
Security 1
0.2%
Security Guard 1
0.2%
Security guard 1
0.2%
Selling spices 1
0.2%
Selling second hand clothes 1
0.2%
She does not know 1
0.2%
Shop Assistant 3
0.5%
Shop assistant 6
0.9%
Shop attendant 1
0.2%
Shop keeper 6
0.9%
Shopkeeper 4
0.6%
Solder 1
0.2%
Soldier 1
0.2%
Soldier ,malawi army 1
0.2%
Store Clerk at Mota Engil 1
0.2%
Store boy 1
0.2%
Sucking milk 1
0.2%
Sugar processing 1
0.2%
Sugarcane Cutter 1
0.2%
Supervisor at Soya Pieces company 1
0.2%
TAILOR 2
0.3%
TAILORING 2
0.3%
TAX DRIVER 1
0.2%
TAXI RANK DRIVER 1
0.2%
TEA OPERATOR ( TEA PROCESSOR IN THE PRODUCTION) 1
0.2%
TEACHER 5
0.8%
TEACHING 1
0.2%
TEACHING MADRASSAH 1
0.2%
TENANT 1
0.2%
TENANT OF MAKING TOBACCO 1
0.2%
TRANSPORTER 1
0.2%
Tailor 5
0.8%
Tailor and Designer 1
0.2%
Tailoring 2
0.3%
Tairor 1
0.2%
Taxi driver 1
0.2%
Tea Labourer 1
0.2%
Teacher 14
2.2%
Teacher Of ICT 1
0.2%
Teacher at Our Lady of wisdom 1
0.2%
Technician 1
0.2%
Tenant at a farm 1
0.2%
Track driver 1
0.2%
Transportation Business 1
0.2%
University Lecture 1
0.2%
University Lecturer 1
0.2%
Veterinary officer 1
0.2%
WAITRESS 1
0.2%
WAREHOUSE ATTENDANT 1
0.2%
WATCHMAN 1
0.2%
WATCHMAN (GUARD)AT ALLIANCE 1 1
0.2%
WELDER 2
0.3%
WELDING 1
0.2%
WORK AS A CLEANER AT THONDWE HOSPITAL 1
0.2%
WORK AS A CLEANER AT TOWN ASSEMBLY 1
0.2%
WORKING AS A SECURITY GUARD AT G4 S 1
0.2%
WORKING AT UNIVERSAL INDUSTRIES 1
0.2%
WORKING IN A SHOP 1
0.2%
WORKS AT A PHARMACY AS A SHOP ATTENDANT 1
0.2%
WORKS AT DAIRY BOARD 1
0.2%
WORKS AT MALARIA PROJECT 1
0.2%
Waiter in a Hotel 1
0.2%
Waitress 1
0.2%
Ward attendant 1
0.2%
Watchman 1
0.2%
Water users association 1
0.2%
Work as a tailer 1
0.2%
Work as afarmer in a farm estate 1
0.2%
Work in a company 1
0.2%
Working at Ilovo company 1
0.2%
Working as Healthy Suilveylies Assistant 1
0.2%
Working as a driver 1
0.2%
Working as mechanic 1
0.2%
Working in universal private company dont know the position 1
0.2%
Working to the restaurant 1
0.2%
Works at a filling station 1
0.2%
Works in Airport as Security guard 1
0.2%
a maid 1
0.2%
agricultural farming 1
0.2%
barber man 1
0.2%
belly ringer at mosque in south africa 1
0.2%
bicycle taxi driver 1
0.2%
bicycle taxi driver and business man 1
0.2%
builder 3
0.5%
business 5
0.8%
business man 4
0.6%
capentry 1
0.2%
car dealer 1
0.2%
carpenter 4
0.6%
civil servant 1
0.2%
cleanerer. cleaning government hospital premisses at karonga hospital 1
0.2%
contractor 1
0.2%
do not know 1
0.2%
doing welding in town 1
0.2%
domestic work 4
0.6%
domestic worker 1
0.2%
don't know 17
2.6%
driver 1
0.2%
electrician at Escom 1
0.2%
farm worker 1
0.2%
farmer 2
0.3%
farming 4
0.6%
farming in estates 1
0.2%
feeding livestock 1
0.2%
fishing 1
0.2%
fixing phones 1
0.2%
fuel attendant 2
0.3%
ganyu 1
0.2%
garden boy 1
0.2%
gardenboy.taking care of household surrounding. 1
0.2%
general labour 1
0.2%
government secondary Teacher 1
0.2%
ground labourer at a hospital 1
0.2%
groundlabour 3
0.5%
guard 2
0.3%
hair dresser 1
0.2%
he is a DJ 1
0.2%
he is a business man he sells charcoal 1
0.2%
he is a construtor 1
0.2%
he is a minibus conducter 1
0.2%
he works at filling station 1
0.2%
he works in a shop 1
0.2%
health assistant 1
0.2%
house maid 3
0.5%
houseboy 1
0.2%
housekeeping 1
0.2%
housemaid 1
0.2%
housework 1
0.2%
immigration officer 1
0.2%
interigent 1
0.2%
labourer 2
0.3%
logistics data entry clerk 1
0.2%
looks after seeds at Muli's warehouse 1
0.2%
machine operator 1
0.2%
maid 1
0.2%
maintaining engines at the factory 1
0.2%
manager 1
0.2%
mechanic 4
0.6%
mechanical 4
0.6%
mechanical at Siku transport 1
0.2%
metal works (.kuotchelera zitsulo) 1
0.2%
military soldier 1
0.2%
minibus conductor 1
0.2%
mobile money agent 1
0.2%
motor mechanic 1
0.2%
mulding bricks 1
0.2%
nurse 1
0.2%
nursery teacher 1
0.2%
office assistant 1
0.2%
operates the maize mill 1
0.2%
owns a Local Pharmacy 1
0.2%
owns a shop 1
0.2%
phone repairer 1
0.2%
planning officer at ministry of education 1
0.2%
police officer 1
0.2%
primary school teacher 3
0.5%
primary teacher 1
0.2%
prison officer 1
0.2%
prison warder 1
0.2%
quality checker 1
0.2%
sales Man in a shop 1
0.2%
sales lady 1
0.2%
secretary 4
0.6%
security guard 1
0.2%
sells electric accessories 1
0.2%
sells man 1
0.2%
sells shoes 1
0.2%
she sells clothes 1
0.2%
she sells mandask 1
0.2%
shop attendant 1
0.2%
shop keeper 6
0.9%
shop keeper in the South Africa shop 1
0.2%
shopkeeper 6
0.9%
soldier 1
0.2%
tailoring 2
0.3%
takes care of cattle 1
0.2%
tea farms 1
0.2%
teacher 2
0.3%
teaching 1
0.2%
tellerstorn 1
0.2%
transport communication officer 1
0.2%
vaccination officer at a healthy centre 1
0.2%
vetenary 1
0.2%
veterinary officer in ministry of agriculture 1
0.2%
wailter 2
0.3%
washing people's clothes 1
0.2%
watchman at leopard matches limited 1
0.2%
welder 1
0.2%
weldering 1
0.2%
working as Electrician in Electric Company 1
0.2%
working as Plumber at Lilongwe water board 1
0.2%
working as a tenant at a certain farm 1
0.2%
working as house boy 1
0.2%
works as a kabhanza guy for a certain person 1
0.2%
works as an iT technician at a health centre fixing iT related problems 1
0.2%
works at a filling station 1
0.2%
works at waterboard as meter reader 1
0.2%
works on a farm 1
0.2%
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.
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