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

Last modified

Aug 01, 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]

concept

Concept

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