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Population Census; Building and Housing Census 1991 - IPUMS Subset

Austria, 1991
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WBG_AUT_1991_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Austrian Central Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center
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Occupation of supporter: sub-major groups (AT1991A_0429)

Data file: AUT1991-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 179
End: 180
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 59
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
12. Exact description of occupation: ________

e.g. "bookkeeper" or "shoe salesman" - not "commercial employee"
"Mounting of video machines on assembly line" - not "unskilled worker"
Public-sector employees enter their use
e.g. "Contractual employee in social welfare service", "home carpenter", "street cleaner"





11 to 16. If several employments exist, please answer questions 11 to 16 for the job with the most working time. In case of a change of employment at the time of the census, please answer questions 11 to 16 for the situation on May 15, 1991. Persons who both attend a school and have an occupation answer questions 11 to 16, depending on whether they have defined themselves as "employed" or as "pupil, student" in question 10.

11. Status in employment: workers mark "skilled worker", "semi-skilled worker" or "unskilled worker", depending on their collective labor agreement placement in the business they are employed in.
A person is self-employed if he/she is not an employee but instead has a profession in his/her own account.
With/without employee: depending whether persons receiving wages or salaries are employed in the business or not. Self-employed persons whose only employees are family members who are not being formally paid, please mark "without employees".
Unpaid workers in a family business are working in the business of a family member without being formally paid.

12. Exact description of occupation: Your statements will be categorized in one of 300 different occupational groups, and we therefore ask you to be as precise as possible in describing your occupational activity.

Examples of precise description of occupation:


Gas welder for steel construction parts
Operator of data processing machines
Adjuster of men's shirts
Plexiglas cutter
Operator of plastic processing machines
Foreman of a dip-varnishing business
Electrician for high-tension transmission lines
Scientific researcher in the field of environmental protection


13. Branch of economic activity of the company or office: the branch of economic activity states to which branch the business or which you are working belongs to. Public service employees enter "federal administration", "provincial administration" or "municipal administration" depending on which government unit they are employed with.

14. Name of company or type of school you are presently attending: persons with several employers, cleaners) enter "several employers".

15 and 16. Address and journey to workplace or school: These questions are designed to describe your journey from your housing unit to your workplace or school. Teachers therefore state the school where they are teaching (school they are based at) and not e.g. School Inspection Authority.
Persons working in their house or on the same piece of property (e.g. janitors, farmers, homeworkers) or who live in the school building, mark the box "this house" for questions 15; these persons skip question 16.
If the workplace (school) is abroad, please state which country.
Persons with changing workplace (e.g. cleaning women, constructions workers) answer question 15 and 16 in accordance with the situation on May 15, 1991.
Persons who marked "not daily" in question 16a) can skip parts b and c.
Categories
Value Category
1 Engineering science and natural science professionals
2 Health professionals and technicians
3 Teachers, educators
4 Legal professionals, human and social scientists
5 Religious professionals, social workers
6 Artists, journalists and sportspersons
7 Managers in administration, industry and finance
8 Office and financial clerks
9 Administrative clerks
10 Bookkeepers, cashiers and related workers
11 Other clerical workers
12 Computer equipment operators, data entry operators
13 Managers (wholesale and retail), advertising salespersons
14 Merchants, salespersons
15 Hotel and restaurant managers
16 Waiters, cooks
17 Other restaurant and hotel service workers, housekeepers
18 Cleaners
19 Hairdressers, beauticians and related workers
20 Health service workers
21 Protective service workers, armed forces
22 Other service workers
23 Transport supervisors
24 Postal service workers, messengers
25 Transport conductors
26 Vehicle drivers
27 Transport service auxiliary personnel
28 Freight handlers, warehouse workers
29 Crane and construction machinery and related operators
30 Machine operators, firepersons
31 Agricultural occupations
32 Forestry occupations
33 Miners, quarrymen and related workers
34 Potters, glassmakers, stonemasons and related workers
35 Metal processors
36 Metalworking occupations
37 Metal trade laborers
38 Wood preparation workers, papermakers
39 Chemical processors, leather manufacturers
40 Textile production and finishing workers
41 Bricklayers, plasterers, scaffolders
42 Carpenters
43 Painters, varnishers
44 Glaziers, roofers, floor layers and related workers
45 Civil engineering workers
46 Construction laborers
47 Food and beverage processors
48 Tailors, dressmakers, sewers and related workers
49 Furriers, leather goods makers
50 Joiners and related woodworkers
51 Rubber, plastics and paper products makers
52 Printers and related workers
53 Jewelers, precision instrument makers and related workers
54 Locksmiths (fitters), mechanics and related workers
55 Plumbers and pipe installation workers
56 Electrical workers
57 Laborers without further details, workers without further details
58 Retired persons
59 Other income recipients
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.
Interviewer instructions
11 to 16, occupational questions:
If several employment relationships exist, please answer question 11 to 16 for the profession with the most working hours.

If you are changing employment relationships at the time of the population census, please answer questions 11 to 16 for the situation on May 15, 1991.

Persons who are employed as well as attending a school, answer questions 11 to 16 depending on if they designated themselves as "employed" or "student, pupil" in question 10.

Purpose of the question:
The results of the populations census in occupational and economic areas are of great importance for the planning administration, the economy, research and the representation of interests, because they present a cross section of the total of all employed persons. Other surveys (like e.g. local unit of employment census or the social insurance institutes) also provide data in this area, but not with the diversity, objectivity, and regional subdivision and combination possibilities of the population census.




12, Exact description of occupation:
e.g.: "bookkeeper" or "shoe salesman" not "commercial employee," "Mounting of video devices on assembly line" not "unskilled worker."
Public servants enter their assignment: e.g. "contractual employee in social support service," "home carpenter," "street cleaner."

Your statements should be categorized into one of 300 different occupational groups, and we therefore ask you to be as precise as possible in describing your occupational activities.

Examples of precise description of occupation include: gas welder for steel construction parts, operator of data processing machines, men's shirt adjuster, glass cuter, operator of plastic processing machines, foreman of a dip-varnishing business, electrician for high-tension transmission lines, scientific researcher in the field of environmental protection.

Enumerator guideline:
The entries in this question are looked up in a dictionary-like directory, in order to be able to correctly code you for the processing with the computer. For a generally held entry such as "office worker" the processor does not know if the person should be classified as an authorized officer, bookkeeper, shorthand typist, paper sorter etc. Statements as precise as possible are asked for.

Purpose of the question:
With this question the field of activity that a person in a company supervises is depicted.

The population census is one of the most important, comprehensive data sources for analyses of occupational structure. It enables the depiction of occupations according to the place of residence as well as according to the place of work of the employed persons and reveals the locations of infrequent occupations.

The occupation practiced in comparison with the education completed is of importance for the predictions of the "replacement demand" or for the guidance of youth educational paths. Also analyzed are need calculations for individual occupational groups and occupations, with which measures for labor market advancement and directed occupational counseling are made possible. In addition, information about career change is gained, due to the connection between learned and practiced occupation.

The survey of the previous occupation of retired persons serves primarily to be able to classify the growing number of retired persons in the charts according to their previous job.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the sub-major occupation group of the person or the person's "supporter." The variable reports the actual status for people who were economically active. Economically inactive children reported the status of the household head or working parent, if the head did not work. Other household members reported they were inactive if they were retired or self-supporting non-workers; otherwise they reported the status of the household head.
Universe
All persons

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