SES Combined socio-economic data
Malawi
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DDI-MWI-MEIRU-SES-2007-v01b
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- combined_ses_ind
Occupation (S) (occ)
Data file: combined_ses_ind
Overview
Valid:
332537
Invalid:
166958
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
67
End:
68
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Not working | 167397 |
50.3%
|
| 11 | Teachers, nurses, clergy, writers | 73 |
0%
|
| 12 | Teachers | 2675 |
0.8%
|
| 13 | Health professionals | 490 |
0.1%
|
| 14 | Clergy | 341 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | Other professionals | 180 |
0.1%
|
| 22 | Managing small family business | 1 |
0%
|
| 23 | Management in large organisations | 516 |
0.2%
|
| 24 | Small family business | 8716 |
2.6%
|
| 25 | Commercial farmer | 32 |
0%
|
| 26 | Traditional authority | 139 |
0%
|
| 30 | Small trader/store keeper | 0 |
0%
|
| 31 | Desk, shop or official outdoor jobs | 130 |
0%
|
| 32 | Small trader/store | 2572 |
0.8%
|
| 33 | Office worker | 619 |
0.2%
|
| 34 | Barman/girl, waiter | 224 |
0.1%
|
| 35 | Sales assistant | 394 |
0.1%
|
| 36 | Army/police | 345 |
0.1%
|
| 37 | Clinical assistants | 914 |
0.3%
|
| 39 | Other non-manual | 352 |
0.1%
|
| 41 | Modern skills | 67 |
0%
|
| 42 | Traditional craft | 28 |
0%
|
| 43 | Crafts and related skills | 5107 |
1.5%
|
| 44 | Driver/assistant driver | 857 |
0.3%
|
| 45 | African Doctor/herbalist | 320 |
0.1%
|
| 49 | Other skilled manual | 712 |
0.2%
|
| 51 | Agriculture | 3001 |
0.9%
|
| 52 | Other manual work | 336 |
0.1%
|
| 53 | Subsistence farmer | 125737 |
37.8%
|
| 54 | Herdsman | 144 |
0%
|
| 55 | Fisherman | 5252 |
1.6%
|
| 56 | Labourer | 2636 |
0.8%
|
| 57 | Security guard/watchman | 1462 |
0.4%
|
| 58 | House boy/girl | 318 |
0.1%
|
| 59 | Other unskilled manual | 450 |
0.1%
|
| 98 | Unknown | 0 |
0%
|
| 99 | Missing | 0 | |
| Sysmiss | 166958 |
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.
Description
Definition
Occupation
Imputation and derivation
Derivation
variable: occ (table[s]: cen_individ, crs_cenm, css_sei_all, combined_tb_cases_controls_final [derived table])