Population and Housing Census 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 2000

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Reference ID

MYS_2000_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of Statistics Malaysia, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Apr 22, 2011

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Occupation - 1 digit (MY2000A_0426)

Data file: MYS2000-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 200

End: 201

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Question C17 - C29 for person aged 10 years and above

[Questions 25-27 were asked of persons who worked for at least one hour during the last 7 days or had a job to return to.]

C25. Occupation

(a) What is your occupation? ____

(b) Please describe your duties/ nature of work. ____

(c) In which sector is your occupation?

[] 1 Government
[] 2 Private
[] 3 Own business

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	Legislators, senior officials and managers
2	Professionals
3	Technicians and associate professionals
4	Clerical workers
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers
7	Craft and related trades workers
8	Plant and machine-operators and assemblers
9	Elementary occupations
99	Unknown

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

This variable indicates the person's occupation (1 digit).

Universe

Persons age 10+ who worked for at least one hour during the last 7 days, and those not working but had a job to return to

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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