"Industry" refers to the activity or product of the establishment or sector in which the person worked. IND is classified according to the system used by the respective national census office at the time, and is not recoded by IPUMS-International.
Concept
Concept
var_concept.name
var_concept.vocab
Work Variables -- PERSON
IPUMS
Imputation and derivation
var_codeinstr
IND is a 5-digit numeric variable.
Some samples use fewer than 5 digits. In those cases, the data are right-justified, and the extra leading digits are padded with zeroes.
