VAR CF0126 R FATHER OCCUPATION
COLUMNS 124 - 124
NUMERIC
MD EQ 0
What kind of work did your father (since 1978: [or father surrogate])
do for a living while you were growing up? (since 1984: What was
his main occupation?) (since 1986:) What were his most important
activities or duties? (since 1984:) What kind of business or
industry was that?
FATHER'S OCCUPATION (WHEN R WAS YOUNG)
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USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.
Since 1984, this variable has been a recode taken from 1980 U.S.
Census Occupation codes [recoded here from collapsed-code Census
variables appearing in NES datasets].
Prior to 1984, this variable was a recode from the following:
1976-1982: 1970 U.S. Census Occupation codes
1968-1974: CPS Political Behavior Occupation codes
1964: 1960 U.S. Census Occupation codes
1956-1960: 1950 U.S. Dept. of Commerce Census of occupations
Personal data forms were completed for no-pre cases in 1960: data
from these forms were incorporated in the (pre) var listed here for
1960.
1. Professional and managerial
2. Clerical and sales workers
3. Skilled, semi-skilled and service workers
4. Laborers, except farm
5. Farmers, farm managers, farm laborers and foremen
0. DK; NA; father wasn't living/ not raised by father/ no
information for parental surrogate; member of armed
forces; father not in labor force; no pre (1952); short-
form or Spanish language (1992); question not used
1952: 141 1956: 298 1958: 257
1960: 180 1964: 259 1966: 228
1968: 252 1970: 370(type 0) 1972: 413
1974: 2534 1976: 3495 1978: 618
1980: 705 1982: 747 1984: 694
1986: 744 1988: 542 1992: 4126
1996: 960710
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