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VCF0154b R Occupation 14-category

QUESTION:
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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?)

VALID_CODES:
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1.  Executive, administrative and managerial
2.  Professional specialty occupations
3.  Technicians and related support occupations
4.  Sales occupation
5.  Administrative support, including clerical
6.  Private household
7.  Protective service
8.  Service except protective and household
9.  Farming, forestry and fishing occupations
10. Precision production, craft and repair occupations
11. Machine operators, assemblers and inspectors
12. Transportation and material moving occupations
13. Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers and laborers
14. Member of armed forces

MISSING_CODES:
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00.   DK; NA; honworking homemaker/student; R has never 
worked for pay
Inap. question not used

NOTES:
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GENERAL NOTE:
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.

WEIGHT:
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VCF0009/VCF0009a

TYPE:
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Numeric  Dec 0

SOURCE_VARS:
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1984:  840516 
1986:  860664  
1988:  880466 
1990:  900603 
1992:  923955 
1994:  941256
1996:  960676 
1998:  980639  
2000:  000980
2004:  043262p


Walter Mebane 2005-11-03