Age or occupational specialization: weaving [EA056]

Description: Age or occupational specialization in the manufacture of true cloth on a loom or frame; not including the manufacture of nets, baskets, mats, or nonwoven fabrics like barkcloth or felt.

Codes [click for detailed code description]
Code # Code
1 Junior age specialization, i.e., the activity is largely performed by boys and/or girls before the age of puberty
2 Senior age specialization, i.e., the activity is largely performed by men and/or women beyond the prime of life
3 Craft specialization, i.e., the activity is largely performed by a small minority of adult males or females who possess specialized skills. Occupational castes are treated as instances of craft specialization
4 Industrial specialization, i.e., the activity is largely removed from the domain of a division of labor by sex, age, or craft specialization and is performed industrialized mainly by techniques of production
9 Normally performed by many or most adult men, women, or both
10 The activity is absent or unimportant in the particular society

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Dataset:
Murdock et al. 1999 'Ethnographic Atlas'
Variable:
Age or occupational specialization: weaving [EA056]
Description:
Age or occupational specialization in the manufacture of true cloth on a loom or frame; not including the manufacture of nets, baskets, mats, or nonwoven fabrics like barkcloth or felt.
Values:
1 Junior age 0
2 Senior age 0
3 Craft 46
4 Industrial 16
9 Most adults 337
10 Activity is absent 446
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