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Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2008-09

Kenya, 2008
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)
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Respondent's occupation (V716)

Data file: KE_Individual_Recode

Overview

Valid: 8423
Invalid: 21
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 96
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 3
Range: 0 - 96
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Not currently working, not worked in last year 3739
44.4%
1 Armed forces 8
0.1%
11 Government officials 6
0.1%
12 Government administrators 5
0.1%
13 Chief executives and Departmental managers 2
0%
14 Non-departmental managers 1
0%
15 Other adminstrators and managers 26
0.3%
16 Religious worker, volunteer, traditional healer 10
0.1%
21 Physicists, chemists and other related professionals 6
0.1%
22 Mathematicians, statisticians and computer professionals 6
0.1%
23 Architects, engineers, surveyors, cartographers 1
0%
24 Health and life science professionals 19
0.2%
25 University and other teaching professionals 59
0.7%
26 Lawyers, jurists, judges 7
0.1%
27 Social science and related professionals 12
0.1%
28 Accountants, business professionals 41
0.5%
29 Authors, journalists, sculptors, painters, composers, other 10
0.1%
31 Engineering, electronic, media communication technicians 4
0%
32 Medical, nursing, dental, pharmaceutical, veterinary profess 52
0.6%
33 Physical and life science technicians 4
0%
34 Shipping officers, aviators and air traffic controller 2
0%
35 Business, securities, insurance professionals 1033
12.3%
36 Mid-level personnel 6
0.1%
37 Primary, pre-primary and other educational instructors 180
2.1%
39 Performance workers, athletes, announcers, inspectors 6
0.1%
41 Clerks, cashiers, secretaries, tellers, stenographers 105
1.2%
42 Information clerks, client-related clerks 19
0.2%
51 Shop assistants, fashion models 73
0.9%
52 Undertakers, barbers, hairdressers, astrologers 122
1.4%
53 Cooks, housekeepers, waiters, caterers 395
4.7%
54 Ship/flight attendants, travel guides, transport conductors 4
0%
61 Farmers, livestock, poultry, dairy workers 645
7.7%
62 Fishery workers 22
0.3%
63 Subsistence agriculture and fishery workers 155
1.8%
64 Forestry workers 2
0%
65 Hunting, wildlife workers 0
0%
71 Mining, building trades workers 23
0.3%
72 Blacksmiths, machinery mechanics, electrical workers 5
0.1%
73 Potters, glassmakers, handicraft workers 3
0%
74 Engravers, bookbinders, photographic workers 0
0%
75 Butchers, food and drink preparers, food processing workers 31
0.4%
76 Cabinet makers, woodworkers 0
0%
77 Fiber preparers, weavers, tailors, dressmakers 188
2.2%
78 Upholsterers, shoemakers, tanners 2
0%
81 Well diggers, mineral product machine operators 2
0%
82 Metal workers 1
0%
83 Wood processing workers 0
0%
84 Petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical plant operators 3
0%
85 Power generating operators 0
0%
86 Food, drink, tobacco processing machine operators 8
0.1%
87 Machinery and product assemblers 0
0%
88 Train, ship, motor vehicle drivers 2
0%
89 Plant and machine operators not classified elsewhere 2
0%
91 Sales and service laborers 413
4.9%
92 Farming, forestry, fishery laborers 832
9.9%
93 Mining, construction, manufacturing, transport laborers 12
0.1%
94 Unclassified laborers 97
1.2%
95 Not working 0
0%
96 Other 12
0.1%
999 21
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.