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pajob

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question Here is a list of different types of jobs. Which type did your father have when you were 16. (If your father did not have a job then, please give the job he used to have.)

Values

  • 1 prof or tech

  • 2 higher admin

  • 3 clerical

  • 4 sales

  • 5 service

  • 6 skilled worker

  • 7 semi-skilled worker

  • 8 unskilled worker

  • 9 farm

  • 10 no dad-never had job

  • NA(d) don't know / NA(i) iap / NA(j) I don't have a job / NA(m) dk, na, iap / NA(n) no answer / NA(p) not imputable / NA(r) refused / NA(s) skipped on web / NA(u) uncodeable / NA(x) not available in this release / NA(y) not available in this year / NA(z) see codebook

Question Years and Ballots

yearballotsavailability
1987-full

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for pajob.

See also

Other ISSP Social Inequality: conage, firstjob, firstslf, lastjob, lastslf, occmobil, paslf, rewrdeff, rewrdint