VCF0126 R Father Occupation 5-category

QUESTION:
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What kind of work did your father (SINCE 1978: [or father surrogate])
do for a living while you were growing up? 
(SINCE 1984: What was his main occupation?) 
(SINCE 1986: What were his most important activities or duties?)  
(SINCE 1984: What kind of business or industry was that?)

VALID_CODES:
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1.  Professional and managerial
2.  Clerical and sales workers
3.  Skilled, semi-skilled and service workers
4.  Laborers, except farm
5.  Farmers, farm managers, farm laborers and foremen

MISSING_CODES:
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0.  DK; NA; father wasn't living/not raised by father/no
    information for parental surrogate; member of armed
    forces; father not in labor force; no Pre IW;
    short-form or Spanish language (1992)
Inap. question not used

NOTES:
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GENERAL NOTE:
Since 1984, this variable has been a recode taken from 1980 U.S.
Census Occupation codes [recoded here from collapsed-code Census
variables appearing in ANES datasets].
Prior to 1984, this variable was a recode from the following:
1976-1982:  1970 U.S. Census Occupation codes
1968-1974:  CPS Political Behavior Occupation codes
1964:  1960 U.S. Census Occupation codes
1956-1960:  1950 U.S. Dept. of Commerce Census of occupations
1960 NOTE:
Personal data forms were completed for no-pre cases: data from these
forms were incorporated.

WEIGHT:
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VCF0009/VCF0009a

TYPE:
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Numeric  Dec 0

SOURCE_VARS:
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1952:  520141
1956:  560298  
1958:  580257
1960:  600180 
1964:  640259
1966:  660228
1968:  680252
1970:  700370(type 0) 
1972:  720413
1974:  742534  
1976:  763495
1978:  780618
1980:  800705
1982:  820747  
1984:  840694
1986:  860744 
1988:  880542
1992:  924126
1996:  960710