title: Economic activity and occupation in the Pacific Islands:  issues of census classification and analysis.
abstract: The author discusses the census assessment of economic activity and occupation in the Pacific Island nations of Oceania.  "In the Pacific Islands, subsistence and certain kinds of cash activities are often overlooked, and this omission tends to make vulnerable groups, especially women, less visible to planners and politicians.  Some progress has been made in incorporating nonwage and noncash activities into recent classification systems used in censuses.  One of the purposes of the new International Classification of Occupations...is to provide an improved system of classification for such activities.... Also needed in the Pacific are systems for providing more meaningful data collection and analysis on the relationship between individual and household activities."
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Friesen
mesh_terms: D019352:Censuses; D002965:Classification; D003625:Data Collection; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004651:Employment; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006280:Health Workforce; D009790:Occupations; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012106:Research; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Census; Census Methods; Classification; Data Collection; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Employment Status; Evaluation; Human Resources; Informal Sector; Macroeconomic Factors; Microeconomic Factors; Occupations; Oceania; Population Statistics; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status