- Description
- Codes
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- Universe
- Availability
- Questionnaire Text
- Flags
- Source Variables
- Editing Procedure
Description
UCLASSWK reports the sample-line person's "usual" class of work. Used in conjunction with CLASSWKR, which indicates the respondent's current class of work, UCLASSWK allows users to identify persons currently performing under a different status than they normally do.
Codes and Frequencies
An 'X' indicates the category is available for that sample
Code | Label |
1940
1pct
|
---|---|---|
0 | N/A | X |
1 | Self-employed | X |
2 | Employer | X |
3 | Wage/salary, private work | X |
4 | Wage/salary, government work | X |
6 | Unpaid family worker | X |
7 | No usual occupation | X |
8 | Illegible | · |
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Comparability
This variable is only available for 1940. UCLASSWK is the only variable for 1940 indicating a class of work for persons who were not in the labor force (working, temporarily absent from a job, or looking for work) in the week prior to the census but who had worked in the past. The 1950 variable RCLASSWK similarly supplies a class of work for previously-employed persons not in the labor force in the week prior to the census. Beginning in 1960, the census collected class of worker data (see CLASSWKR) not only for persons currently in the labor force, but also for all persons who had worked during a specific reference period (within the past 10 years for 1960-1970, within the past five years for 1980-2000 and the ACS).
See also EMPSTAT for definitions of key labor force and employment terminology.
Universe
- 1940: Sample-line persons age 14+.
Availability
- 2023: --
- 2022: --
- 2021: --
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- 1990: --
- 1980: --
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- 1960: --
- 1950: --
- 1940: All samples
- 1930: --
- 1920: --
- 1910: --
- 1900: --
- 1880: --
- 1870: --
- 1860: --
- 1850: --
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Questionnaire Text
1940 1% |
Enter that occupation which the person regards as his usual occupation and at which he is physically able to work. If the person is unable to determine this, enter that occupation at which he has worked longest during the past 10 years and at which he is physically able to work. Enter also usual industry and usual class of worker.
623. Columns 46 and 47. Usual Industry and Usual Class of Worker.-Enter cols. 46 and 47 the appropriate entries to indicate the usual industry and usual class of worker, in accordance with the instructions for entering these items in cols. 29 and 30. (See pars. 548 to 575.) The usual industry and usual class of worker will be those, relating to his usual occupation, which the person regards as the usual ones. These entries may or may not be the same as the corresponding entries in cols. 29 and 30.
Flags
QUCLASSWEditing Procedure
There is no editing procedure available for this variable.