1997 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Iraq, 1997

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Reference ID

IRQ_1997_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Republic of Iraq, Board of Ministers, Planning Commission, Central Statistical Organization, IPUMS

Collection(s)

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

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Apr 22, 2011

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Occupation, ISCO general (OCCISCO)

Data file: IRQ1997_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 149

End: 150

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
01	Legislators, senior officials and managers
02	Professionals
03	Technicians and associate professionals
04	Clerks
05	Service workers and shop and market sales
06	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers
07	Crafts and related trades workers
08	Plant and machine operators and assemblers
09	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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