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The 1980 Population and Housing Census of Thailand - IPUMS Subset

Thailand, 1980
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THA_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Statistical Office, IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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  • THA1980_PHC-P-H.dat

Residence status (TH1980A_RESSTAT)

Data file: THA1980_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 187
End: 187
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
For Every Person
<br />[Questions L1- L7 were asked of every person.]</p>

<p>L6. Residence status</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Permanent resident<br />[] 2 Temporarily away from home<br />[] 3 Temporarily abroad</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Permanent
2 Temporarily away
3 Temporarily 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">3.17.1 A permanent resident means</span><div class="i1">a) an individual regularly lives in the house on the date of census.<br />b) a new baby who was born before or at the time of the census, but s/he has not been brought to the house.<br />c) an individual temporarily resides in the house for not having any permanent house to live.<br />e) an individual moves in the house after the census date, intends to regularly lives in the house, and has never been enumerated.<br />f) servants, labors, construction labors who have left their homes for more than 3 months and have lived in the current living place less than 3 months.</div><span class="em">3.17.2 Temporary leaving </span>means those who normally live in the house on a regular basis, but they have been temporarily away for less than 3 months as of the census date. These include military training, wild food picking, hunting, fishing, salesman, etc. who are not enumerated even though they have been away for more than 3 months.</p>

<p><span class="em">3.17.3 Temporary living aboard </span>means those who temporary living aboard for studying, training, etc., and have no intention to settle aboard even though they have lived aboard for more than 3 months.</p>

<p><span class="em">Columns 1 - 7 Interview and record the detailed information of every household member.</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Column 6 Living conditions</span></p>

<p>Record code in _ which corresponds to the answer of living conditions of each household member.
<br /><span class="em">1. Permanent resident </span>record code 1 for</p>
<div class="i1">- Those regularly live in the house and on the date of census.<br />- New babies who were born before the date of census and have not been brought home.<br />- Those moved in the house after the date of census and intend to live and not having been enumerated elsewhere.</div><span class="em">2. Temporary leaving members</span> record code 2 for</p>
<div class="i1">- Those who normally live in the house on a regular basis, but they have been temporarily away for not more than 3 months as of the date of census.<br />- Those leaving for military training, wild material collecting, hunting, fishery, etc. who have no opportunity to be enumerated anywhere else, even though they have left for more than 3 months.</div><span class="pg">p. 68</span></p>

<p><span class="em">3. Temporary living aboard</span> record code 3 for those who are living aboard for studying, training, study visit, temporary work etc. without intention to live permanently aboard.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the residence status of the person.
Universe
Thailand 1980: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
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