Population and Housing Census 2000

Ghana, 2000

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GHA-GSS-PHC-2000-v1.0

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Ghana Statistical Service

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P14 Occupation (Occup)

Data file: Population

Overview

Valid: 90626

Invalid: 99242

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Width: 3

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

TYPE OF ACTIVITY - ANSWER ONLY FOR AGES 7 YEARS OR OLDER. THE ANSWER SHOULD REFER TO THE 7 DAYS BEFORE CENSUS NIGHT:

Literal question

P14 What kind of work did (NAME) do? FOR UNEMPLOYED, LAST KIND OF WORK.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Professional, technical and related worker	5427	6%
2	Administrative and managerial workers	220	0.2%
3	Clerical and related workers	3857	4.3%
4	Sales workers	13547	14.9%
5	Service workers	5444	6%
6	Agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry workers, fishermen a	45998	50.8%
7	Production and related workers, transport and equipment oper	7894	8.7%
8	Workers not classified by occupation	8239	9.1%

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.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

OCCUP (major classification of occupation)
Variable obtained by recoding the detailed occupation provided in the variable OCCDET into major classification of occupation:
RECODE
1 thru 19=1 20 thru 29=2 30 thru 39=3 40 thru 49=4 50
thru 59=5 60 thru 69=6 70 thru 79=7 80 thru 100=8 ELSE=SYSMIS .

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