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Censos de Población y Viviendas 2011 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Spain, 2011 - 2012
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ESP_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadística), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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  • ESP2011_PHC-P-H.dat

Autonomous community or city of birth (ES2011A_BPLAUTON)

Data file: ESP2011_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 265
End: 266
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">Country of birth:</span>
<br />[] Spain. Write the municipality and province:</p>
<div class="i1">Municipality _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _<br />Province _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _</div><p>[] Other country _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Categories
Value Category
11 Galicia
12 Principado de Asturias
13 Cantabria
21 País Vasco
22 Comunidad Foral de Navarra
23 La Rioja
24 Aragón
30 Comunidad de Madrid
41 Castilla y León
42 Castilla-La Mancha
43 Extremadura
51 Cataluña
52 Comunidad Valenciana
53 Illes Balears
61 Andalucía
62 Región de Murcia
63 Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta
64 Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla
70 Canarias
98 Born abroad
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="em">1.A.5 Place of birth</span></p>

<p>For those people that have been born in Spain this variable refers to the place of habitual residence of the mother at the moment of birth, or if this is unknown, that in which the birth took place.</p>

<p>For the people that have been born outside of Spain this variable will contain the value of the country of habitual residence of the mother at the moment of birth, or if this is not available, that in which the birth took place following the international borders on the date of reference of the census.</p>

<p>It deals with a variable relevant to the effect of determining collectives of migrants and their origin. In fact the variable determines the group of immigrants and, because of that, it is essential together with nationality to be able to study their characteristics, their life conditions, and their level of integration.</p>

<p><span class="pg">[p. 27]</span></p>

<p>Categories of this variable:</p>
<div class="i1">Municipality of Spain (for those people that have been born in Spain)<br />Country (for those people that have been born outside of Spain)</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's autonomous community or city of birth in Spain. Autonomous communities and cities are the largest-scale geographic identifier available in the Spain samples.
Universe
Spain 2011: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Nativity and Birthplace Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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