Ghana - Population and Housing Census 2000

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Reference ID GHA-GSS-PHC-2000-v1.0
Year 2000
Country Ghana
Producer(s) Ghana Statistical Service - Office of the President
Sponsor(s) Government of Ghana - GoG - 76 per cent of total funding
Department for International Development - DFID - Vehicles, Data capture equipment, generator
United Nations Fund for Population Activities - UNFPA - Technical assistance, advocacy for do
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P14 Occupation (Occup)
File: Population
Overview
Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 3
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-8
Valid cases: 90626
Invalid: 99242
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 8
Questions and instructions
Pre question
TYPE OF ACTIVITY - ANSWER ONLY FOR AGES 7 YEARS OR OLDER. THE ANSWER SHOULD REFER TO THE 7 DAYS BEFORE CENSUS NIGHT:
Literal question
P14 What kind of work did (NAME) do? FOR UNEMPLOYED, LAST KIND OF WORK.
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 Professional, technical and related worker 5427 6.0%
2 Administrative and managerial workers 220 0.2%
3 Clerical and related workers 3857 4.3%
4 Sales workers 13547 14.9%
5 Service workers 5444 6.0%
6 Agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry workers, fishermen a 45998 50.8%
7 Production and related workers, transport and equipment oper 7894 8.7%
8 Workers not classified by occupation 8239 9.1%
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.
Imputation and Derivation
Derivation
OCCUP (major classification of occupation)
Variable obtained by recoding the detailed occupation provided in the variable OCCDET into major classification of occupation:
RECODE
1 thru 19=1 20 thru 29=2 30 thru 39=3 40 thru 49=4 50
thru 59=5 60 thru 69=6 70 thru 79=7 80 thru 100=8 ELSE=SYSMIS .

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