Nigeria - Demographic and Health Survey, 2008, Fifth Round
Reference ID | NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0 |
Year | 2008 |
Country | Nigeria |
Producer(s) | National Population Commission (NPC) - Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) |
Sponsor(s) | President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - PEPFAR - funding United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA - funding MEASURE DHS Project - MEASURE - funding |
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Created on | Oct 18, 2010 |
Last modified | Dec 02, 2013 |
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Respondent's occupation
(V716)
File: Woman
File: Woman
Overview
Type:
Discrete Format: numeric Width: 3 Decimals: 0 Range: 0-998 Invalid: 999 | Valid cases: 33234 Invalid: 1362 Minimum: 0 Maximum: 998 |
All eligible women
Respondent
Categories
Value | Category | Cases | |
---|---|---|---|
0 | Not working | 12735 | 38.3% |
1 | Physical scientist | 2 | 0.0% |
2 | Architects, engineers, technologists and surveyors | 6 | 0.0% |
3 | Engineering technicians | 2 | 0.0% |
4 | Aircraft and ships officers | 0 | 0.0% |
5 | Life scientists | 8 | 0.0% |
6 | Life science technicians | 2 | 0.0% |
7 | Physicians and surgeons | 4 | 0.0% |
8 | Nursing and other medical and health technicians | 309 | 0.9% |
9 | Scientific, medical and technical persons, other | 6 | 0.0% |
10 | Mathematicians, statisticians and related workers | 1 | 0.0% |
11 | Economists, and related workers | 0 | 0.0% |
12 | Accountants, auditors and related workers | 52 | 0.2% |
13 | Social scientists and related workers | 0 | 0.0% |
14 | Jurists | 5 | 0.0% |
15 | Teachers | 705 | 2.1% |
16 | Poets, authors, journalists and related workers | 9 | 0.0% |
17 | Sculptors, painters, photographers, and related creative art | 49 | 0.1% |
18 | Composers and performing artists | 24 | 0.1% |
19 | Professional workers, not elsewhere classified (n.E.C.) | 5 | 0.0% |
20 | Elected and legislative officials | 3 | 0.0% |
21 | Administrative and executive officials government and local | 38 | 0.1% |
22 | Working proprietors, directors and managers, wholesale and r | 1 | 0.0% |
23 | Directors and managers, financial institutions | 1 | 0.0% |
24 | Working proprietors, directors and managers mining construct | 1 | 0.0% |
25 | Working proprietors, directors managers and related executiv | 1 | 0.0% |
26 | Working proprietors, directors and managers, other services | 1 | 0.0% |
27 | Note coded | 0 | 0.0% |
28 | Not coded | 0 | 0.0% |
29 | Administrative, executive and managerial workers, n.E.C. | 13 | 0.0% |
30 | Clerical and other supervisors | 22 | 0.1% |
31 | Village officials | 3 | 0.0% |
32 | Stenographers, typist and card and tape punching operators | 78 | 0.2% |
33 | Book keepers, cashiers and related workers | 24 | 0.1% |
34 | Computing machine operators | 52 | 0.2% |
35 | Clerical and related workers | 91 | 0.3% |
36 | Transport and communication supervisors | 0 | 0.0% |
37 | Transport conductors and guards | 3 | 0.0% |
38 | Mail distributors and related workers | 51 | 0.2% |
39 | Telephone and telegraph operators | 4 | 0.0% |
40 | Merchants and shopkeepers, wholesale and retail trade | 8687 | 26.1% |
41 | Manufacturers, agents | 7 | 0.0% |
42 | Technical salesmen and commercial travellers | 2 | 0.0% |
43 | Salesmen, shop assistants and related workers | 184 | 0.6% |
44 | Insurance, real estate, securities and business service, sal | 7 | 0.0% |
45 | Money lenders and pawn brokers | 1 | 0.0% |
46 | Civil servant | 198 | 0.6% |
47 | Not coded | 2 | 0.0% |
48 | Businessman, not specified | 56 | 0.2% |
49 | Sales workers, n.E.C. | 10 | 0.0% |
50 | Hotel and restaurant keepers | 94 | 0.3% |
51 | House keepers, matron and stewards (domestic & institutional | 63 | 0.2% |
52 | Cooks, waiters, bartenders and related workers (domestic & i | 81 | 0.2% |
53 | Maids and related house keeping service workers, n.E.C. | 33 | 0.1% |
54 | Building caretakers, sweepers, cleaners and related workers | 47 | 0.1% |
55 | Launderers, dry-cleaners and pressers, n.E.C. | 14 | 0.0% |
56 | Hair dresser, barbers, beauticians and related workers | 677 | 2.0% |
57 | Protective service workers | 51 | 0.2% |
58 | Drivers (official, taxi, bus), okada (motorcycle drivers) | 5 | 0.0% |
59 | Service workers | 33 | 0.1% |
60 | Farm plantation, dairy and other managers and supervisors | 2 | 0.0% |
61 | Cultivators | 5662 | 17.0% |
62 | Farmers, other than cultivators | 27 | 0.1% |
63 | Agricultural labourer | 1 | 0.0% |
64 | Plantation labourers & related workers | 4 | 0.0% |
65 | Other farm workers | 6 | 0.0% |
66 | Forestry workers | 2 | 0.0% |
67 | Hunters and related workers | 0 | 0.0% |
68 | Fishermen and related workers | 166 | 0.5% |
69 | Not coded | 0 | 0.0% |
70 | Not coded | 1 | 0.0% |
71 | Miners, quarrymen, well drillers & related workers | 7 | 0.0% |
72 | Metal processors | 3 | 0.0% |
73 | Wood preparation workers and paper makers | 3 | 0.0% |
74 | Chemical processors and related workers | 2 | 0.0% |
75 | Spinners, weavers, knitters, dyers and related workers | 897 | 2.7% |
76 | Tanners, fellmongers and pelt dressers | 1 | 0.0% |
77 | Food and beverage processors | 328 | 1.0% |
78 | Tobacco preparers & tobacco product makers | 0 | 0.0% |
79 | Tailors, dress makers, sewers, upholsterers & related worker | 1216 | 3.7% |
80 | Shoemakers & leather goods makers | 3 | 0.0% |
81 | Carpenters, cabinet & related wood workers | 8 | 0.0% |
82 | Stone cutters & carvers | 4 | 0.0% |
83 | Blacksmiths, tool makers and machine tools operators | 8 | 0.0% |
84 | Machinery fitters, machine assemblers and precession instrum | 1 | 0.0% |
85 | Electrical fitters & related electrical & electronic workers | 0 | 0.0% |
86 | Broadcasting station and sound equipment operators and cinem | 2 | 0.0% |
87 | Plumbers, welders, sheet metal & structural metal preparers | 4 | 0.0% |
88 | Jewellery & precious metal workers and metal engravers | 4 | 0.0% |
89 | Glass formers, potters & related workers | 20 | 0.1% |
90 | Rubber and plastic product makers workers | 8 | 0.0% |
91 | Paper & paper board products makers/printing and related wor | 5 | 0.0% |
92 | Painters/production & related workers, n.E.C/bricklayers and | 21 | 0.1% |
93 | Stationery engines and related equipment operators, oilers a | 3 | 0.0% |
94 | Transport equipment operators | 0 | 0.0% |
95 | Labourers (labourers, n.E.C.) | 151 | 0.5% |
96 | Other (new workers seeking employment, workers reporting occ | 9 | 0.0% |
97 | None (workers not reporting any occupation, including housew | 91 | 0.3% |
998 | Dk (don't know) | 1 | 0.0% |
999 | Missing | 151 | |
Sysmiss | 1211 |
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.
Questions and instructions
What is your occupation, that is, what kind of work do you mainly do?
Others
Women not reporting an occupation will be coded to zero.