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VAR CF0154a R OCCUPATION 71 CATEGORIES 1984-LATER
COLUMNS 201-202
NUMERIC
MD EQ 0 OR GE 98
What is/was your main occupation? (What sort of work do/did
you do?) (1984-1986:IF NOT CLEAR: tell me a little more about
what you do/did.) (1986 AND LATER: What are/were your most important
activities or duties?)
R OCCUPATION -
71-CATEGORY COLLAPSED CENSUS OCCUPATION CODE
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USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B
This variable combines employment data for all Rs except
nonworking homemakers and students (i.e., their data for
employment in the past 6 months are omitted).
The disabled and homemakers or students who are also
currently working have their current occupation coded here.
Retirees who are also currently working have past occupation
coded rather than current occupation. If R is disabled
and not working but has worked in the past, or if R is
unemployed, then past employment is represented here.
The original 3-digit U.S. Census Occupation variable
has been recoded into 71 subgroups, in order to protect
Respondents' anonymity.
01. Executive, administrative, and managerial
02. Management-related occupations
03. Engineers, architects, surveyors
04. Mathematical and computer scientists
05. Natural scientists
06. Health diagnosing occupations
07. Health assessment and treating occupations
08. Teachers, postsecondary
09. Teachers, except postsecondary
10. Social scientist and urban planners
11. Social, recreation, and religious workers
12. Lawyers and judges
13. Writers, artists, entertainers, and athletes
14. Health technologists and technicians
15. Engineering and related technologists and technicians
16. Science technicians
17. Technicians, except health, engineering, and science
18. Sales occupation supervisors and proprietors; sales
representatives, finance and business services
19. Sales representatives, commodities except retail
20. Sales workers, retail and personal services
21. Sales related occupations
22. Clerical supervisors
23. Computer equipment operators
24. Secretaries, stenographers, and typists
25. Information clerks
26. Records processing cccupations, except financial
27. Financial records processing occupations
28. Duplicating, mail and other office machine operators
29. Communications equipment operators
30. Mail and message distributing occupations
31. Material recording, scheduling, and distribuing clerks
32. Adjusters and investigators
33. Miscellaneous administrative support occupations
34. Private household occupations
35. Protective service occupations
36. Food preparation and service occupations
37. Health service occupations
38. Cleaning and building service occupations, exc. household
39. Personal service occupations
40. Farm operators and managers
41. Farm occupations, except managerial
42. Related agriculatural occupations
43. Forestry and logging occupations; fishers, hunters, and
trappers
44. Mechanics and repairers supervisors; mechanics and
repairers, vehicle and mobile equipment
45. Mechanics and repairers, except vehicle and mobile equipment
46. Miscellaneous mechanics and repairers
47. Supervisors, construction occupations
48. Construction trades, except supervisors
49. Extractive occupations
50. Production occupation supervisors; precision metalworking
occupations
51. Precision woodworking occupations
52. Precision textile, apparel, and furnishings machine workers
53. Precision workers, assorted materials
54. Precision food production occupations
55. Precision inspectors, testers and related workers-
56. Plant and system operators
57. Machine operators and tenders, except precision:
metalworking and plastic working machine operators
58. Machine operators and tenders, except precision:
metal and plastic processing machine operators
59. Machine operators and tenders, except precision:
woodworking machine operators
60. Machine operators and tenders, except precision:
printing machine operators
61. Machine operators and tenders, except precision:
textile, apparel, and furnishings machine operators
62. Machine operators and tenders, except precision:
machine operators, assorted materials
63. Fabricators, assemblers, and hand working occupations-
64. Production inspectors, testors, samplers, and weighers-
65. Motor vehicle operators
66. Rail transportation occupations; water transportation
occupations
67. Material moving equipment operators
68. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
69. Freight, stock, and material handlers
70. Laborers, except construction
71. Current member of the armed forces
98. DK
99. NA
00. Inap, R has never worked for pay; question not used
1984: 840515 1986: 860663 1988: 880465
1990: 900602 1992: 923954 1994: 941255
1996: 960675 1998: 980638 2000: 000979
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Walter Mebane
2003-02-17