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ERRATA

Description:Collapsed version of occupational prestige variable (V043262q)
Posted:2005-Jun-29

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Users have requested that we add a collapsed version of the occupational prestige variable (V043262d) to the public dataset. Since a collapsed version of the variable is not a concern in terms of respondent confidentiality, we plan to add such a variable to the next version of the public release file.

In the meantime, we are providing a file containing the new variable (V043262q), along with variable V040001 for purposes of merging with the main file. The file is a ZIP file; within the ZIP file is an Excel file containing the data. The ZIP file can be downloaded by clicking on the following link:
V043262q.zip

The codes have been collapsed into six groups of approximately equal size, as shown in this frequency: 

Code 1 N=183
Code 2 N=179
Code 3 N=186
Code 4 N=190
Code 5 N=182
Code 6 N=177

The codebook entry for the variable will be: 

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V043262q    Y6x14. STACKED: Collapsed past/current occup prestige score
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IF RETIRED OR ELSE UNEMPL/NONWORKING DISABLED WHO HAS EVER WORKED FOR PAY /
IF R IS NOT RETIRED AND IS WORKING NOW/TLO :

QUESTION:
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What kind of work did you do on your last regular job? (What
was your occupation)? What were your most important activities
or duties? /
What is your main occupation? What kind of work do you do?
What are your most important activities or duties?

VALID CODES:
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1. Lowest prestige scores
.
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6. Highest prestige scores

MISSING CODES:
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8 Military
9 DK; NA; Don't know; Not ascertained
INAP. 9 in Y6c; 4 or 6 in Y6c and 5,8,9 in Y9; 7,8 in Y6c and
5,8,9 in Y7a

NOTES:
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Collapsed from Y6x4; coding approximates as closely as possible
equal size groupings of respondents by ranked scores, i.e.,
code 1 corresponds (approximately) to the bottom 16.67% of scored 
cases and code 6 corresponds (approximately) to the top 16.67% 
of scored cases.

TYPE:
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Numeric  Dec 0

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