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Description
SERVANTS is a constructed variable that indicates the number of servants in the household, who are not related to the household head but are likely to be working in the household.
SERVANTS was constructed uniformly for all pre-1950 samples, based on information in RELATE and occupation (OCCHISCO or OCC50US). Specifically, in all countries SERVANTS counts the number of people in the household who meet the following conditions: 1) their relationship to head was non-relative and their occupation indicated they were a servant; 2) an occupation response other than servant but a relationship code of servant; 3) an occupation of servant and a surname different from the head of household (for samples that lack relationship-to-head information).
The variable SERVANTS is top-coded at 99.
Universe
Availability
- Canada: 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911
- Denmark: 1787, 1801
- Iceland: 1703, 1729, 1801, 1901, 1910
- Norway: 1801, 1865, 1875, 1900, 1910
- Sweden: 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910
- United Kingdom: 1851a, 1851b, 1851c, 1861a, 1861b, 1871b, 1881a, 1881b, 1891a, 1891b, 1901a, 1901b, 1911
- United States: 1860, 1870, 1880b, 1900, 1910
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