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1991 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 1991
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MYS_1991_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Relationship to head of household (MY1991A_RELATE)

Data file: MYS1991_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 192
End: 193
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions C1-27 were asked of persons who live in their households on Census Days.]</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MY91A060 MY91A401">C3. Relationship to head of household (Obtain from column B2 or B7)<br /><div class="i1">[] 01 Head of household<br />[] 02 Spouse of head<br />[] 03 Unmarried child of head<br />[] 04 Married child of head<br />[] 05 Daughter-in-law/son-in-law of head<br />[] 06 Grandchild of head<br />[] 07 Mother/father of head or of spouse of head<br />[] 08 Brother/sister of head or of spouse of head<br />[] 09 Other relatives of head or spouse of head<br />[] 10 Others who are not related to head or spouse of head<br />[] 11 Visitor</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 Head
02 Spouse of head
03 Unmarried child of head
04 Married child of head
05 Daughter-in-law/son-in-law of head
06 Grandchild of head
07 Father/mother of head or of spouse of head
08 Brother/sister of head
09 Other persons related to head
10 Other persons unrelated to head
11 Visitors
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
<svar a="all" v="MY91A060 MY91A401"><span class="h3">Question B2</span><br /><br />[The enumeration form for B2 is not shown here.]<br /><br /><span class="em">Purpose</span><br />The purpose of Question B2 is to obtain the relationship of the usual household members to the head of household.<br /><br />How to ask the question<br />Ask the question as given below:<br /><span class="ital">"What is the relationship of ____ (name of usual member) to ____ (name of household head)?"</span><br /><br />How to record the answers<br /><div class="i1">Record in detail the answers given such as wife, husband, child, in-law, grandchild, brother, sister, and others.</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="MY91A060 MY91A401"><span class="h3">Question C3</span><br />[The enumeration form is not presented here.]<br /><br />How to record the answer<br />You have to refer to the answers given for Question B2 and B7 in order to record the code for the answer to this question. Ensure that those listed in Question B6 (Visitors) are marked "X" in code box 11 for Question C3.<br />Not all the types of relationship are given specific codes. For example, Code 09 should be given to persons who state relationship with head as "uncle" or "niece/nephew".<br />For visitors in a household (that is, persons listed in Question B6), they will be given Code 11 without taking into consideration the relationship between the visitor with the head of household. <br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's relationship to the head of household.
Universe
Malaysia 1991: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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