Afrobarometer Survey 2017, Round 7

Nigeria, 2017

Reference ID

NGA_2017_AFB-R7_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)

Collection(s)

Afrobarometer Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Q96b. Occupation of head of household (Q96B)

Data file: nig_r7_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1600

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 99

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1184

End: 1185

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If respondent is not the head of household, i.e. if the response to 96A was NOT 1=You [respondent] or 99=Don’t know, ask:

Literal question

96b. What is the main occupation of the head of the household? [If unemployed, retired or disabled, ask:] What was his/her last main occupation?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Never had a job	16	1%
1	Student	22	1.4%
2	Housewife / homemaker	20	1.3%
3	Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry	304	19%
4	Trader / hawker / vendor	122	7.6%
5	Retail / Shop	39	2.4%
6	Unskilled manual worker	65	4.1%
7	Artisan or skilled manual worker	149	9.3%
8	Clerical or secretarial	25	1.6%
9	Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager	32	2%
10	Security services	23	1.4%
11	Mid-level professional	83	5.2%
12	Upper-level professional	55	3.4%
95	Other	28	1.8%
97	Not applicable (respondent is head of household)	613	38.3%
98	Refused	1	0.1%
99	Don’t know	3	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.

Interviewer instructions

Do not read options. Code from responses.

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