What kind of work do you do?

Respondent occupation group · Asked in 23 waves, 1952–2004 · 40,001 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses

Codes that include 'no Pre/Post IW' were dropped for respondents without that interview. Dropped as not asked: 0 'NA; member of armed forces; no occupation and not a homemaker'. Codebook notes: GENERAL NOTE: See Appendix OCCUPATION notes. This represents current employment of respondents defined as ‘working now’, and represents past employment of respondents defined as retired, unemployed, or disabled; respondents defined as homemakers are coded 6, and respondents defined as students are coded 0. Exclusion: in studies 1966-later, additional occupation data were available for Rs considered ‘students’ and ‘housewives’ (either nonworking [past/recent employment] or currently working some hours [1966-1970: any number of hours; 1972 and later: less than 20 hours per week], but corresponding occupation data were not available at all in the 1952,1956,1958,1960 or 1964 studies, and VCF0115 excludes the occupation of this additional set of (1966-later) respondents: VCF0151 includes such additional data. 2002 NOTE: Respondent occupation was not determined. 2008-LATER NOTE: Revised master codes are not comparable to preceding years for collapse into these categories.