Codes and Frequencies
| Code | Label |
1990
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|---|---|---|
| 0 | N/A (less than 16 years old/unemployed who never worked/NILF who last worked prior to 1985) | 1,017,458 |
| 1 | Employee of a private for profit company or business or of an individual, for wages, salary, or commissions | 1,000,445 |
| 2 | Employee of a private not-for-profit, tax-exempt, or charitable organization | 92,424 |
| 3 | Local government employee (city, county, etc.) | 102,807 |
| 4 | State government employee | 66,084 |
| 5 | Federal government employee | 64,329 |
| 6 | Self-employed in own not incorporated business, professional practice, or farm | 105,503 |
| 7 | Self-employed in own incorporated business, professional practice or farm | 36,370 |
| 8 | Working without pay in family business or farm | 10,477 |
| 9 | Unemployed, last worked in 1984 or earlier | 4,155 |
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30. Was this person - Fill ONE circle
[] Employee of a PRIVATE FOR PROFIT company or business or of an individual, for wages, salary, or commissions
[] Employee of a PRIVATE NOT-FOR-PROFIT, tax-exempt, or charitable organization
[] Local GOVERNMENT employee (city, county, etc.)
[] State GOVERNMENT employee
[] Federal GOVERNMENT employee
[] SELF-EMPLOYED in own NOT INCORPORATED business, professional practice, or farm
[] SELF-EMPLOYED in own INCORPORATED business, professional practice, or farm
[] Working WITHOUT PAY in family business or farm
[] Employee of a PRIVATE NOT-FOR-PROFIT, tax-exempt, or charitable organization
[] Local GOVERNMENT employee (city, county, etc.)
[] State GOVERNMENT employee
[] Federal GOVERNMENT employee
[] SELF-EMPLOYED in own NOT INCORPORATED business, professional practice, or farm
[] SELF-EMPLOYED in own INCORPORATED business, professional practice, or farm
[] Working WITHOUT PAY in family business or farm
"Mark Employee of a PRIVATE NOT-FOR-PROFIT ... organization if the person worked for a cooperative, credit union, mutual insurance company, or similar organization. Employees of foreign governments, the United Nations, and other international organizations should mark PRIVATE NOT-FOR-PROFIT ... organization. For persons who worked at a public school, college or university, mark the appropriate government category; for example, mark State GOVERNMENT employee for a state university, or mark Local GOVERNMENT employee for a county-run community college or a city-run public school."
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