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Census of the Population of Ireland, 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Ireland, 2016
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Reference ID
IRL_2016_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistics Office, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Jul 30, 2025
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Occupation (groups) (IE2016A_OCC)

Data file: IRL2016_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 199
End: 200
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
30. What is (was) your occupation in your main job?</p>
<div class="i1">In all cases, describe the occupation fully and precisely giving the full job title<br />Use precise terms such as retail store manager, secondary teacher, or electrical engineer. Do not use general terms such as manager, teacher, or engineer. Civil servants and local government employees should state their grade e.g. senior administrative officer. Members of the Gardaí or Army should state their rank. Teachers should state the branch of teaching e.g. primary teacher. Clergy and religious orders should give full description e.g. nun, registered general nurse.<br /><br />Write in your main occupation ____</div>
Categories
Value Category
00 Not stated
01 Managers, directors and senior officials
02 Professional occupations
03 Associate professional and technical occupations
04 Administrative and secretarial occupations
05 Skilled trades occupations
06 Caring, leisure and other service occupations
07 Sales and customer service occupations
08 Process, plant and machine operatives
09 Elementary occupations
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
This variable indicates the person's occupation group.
Universe
Ireland 2016: Present persons age 15+ who are working, experienced unemployed, or retired [discrepancies: none]

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Concept
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