Population and Housing Census 1974 - IPUMS Subset

Liberia, 1974

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Reference ID

LBR_1974_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Minnesota Population Center

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Occupation, unrecoded (OCC)

Data file: LBR1974-P-H

Overview

Valid: -

Invalid: -

Type: Continuous

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

OCC records the person's primary occupation, classified according to the system used by the respective national census office at the time. For someone with more than one job, the primary occupation is usually the one in which the person spent the most time or earned the most money, although this may not have been explicit in the instructions for a specific census.

To ensure confidentiality, very small occupations are recoded to a residual category indicating the persons had an occupation, but the job title is not identified. The number of cases recoded should be too small to affect analyses.

Source of information

Occupation, unrecoded

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Imputation

Occupation, unrecoded

Derivation

OCC is a 4-digit numeric variable.

Some samples use fewer than 4 digits. In those cases, the data are right-justified, and the extra leading digits are padded with zeroes.

Please see the codes for: LR1974A_0421

Others

Security

Occupation, unrecoded

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