VAR CF0154a R OCCUPATION 71 CATEGORIES 1984-LATER

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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