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Population Housing and Establishment Census 1997

West Bank and Gaza, 1997
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Main Occupation (c53)

Data file: census1997-e

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Valid: 519394
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 99
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 99
Format: Numeric

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Literal question
Main Occupation
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 407630
78.5%
1 Legislators and Managers 2751
0.5%
2 Professionals 7752
1.5%
3 Technicians and Associate Professionals 7417
1.4%
4 Clerks 4028
0.8%
5 Services and Sales Workers 18124
3.5%
6 Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers 6810
1.3%
7 Crafts and Related Workers 25240
4.9%
8 Plant, Machine Operators and Assemblers 8507
1.6%
9 Elementary Occupations 30230
5.8%
99 Not Stated 905
0.2%
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.

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Definition
Main Occupation:

The main job or type of work performed by the employed person or used to be performed by the unemployed ever worked person. The occupation refers to the activity in which the employee works more than half of his/her working hours or the most frequent job during the last three months prior to the enumeration night.
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