Census of the Population of Ireland, 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Ireland, 2016

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Reference ID

IRL_2016_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Central Statistics Office, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Jul 30, 2025

Last modified

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County of birth (IE2016A_BPL)

Data file: IRL2016_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 181

End: 181

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

6. What is your place of birth?</p>
<div class="i1">Give the place where your mother lived at the time of your birth<br /><br />____ If Ireland (including Northern Ireland), write in the county<br />____ If elsewhere abroad, write in the country</div>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Same county of usual residence in Ireland
2	Other county in Ireland
3	Elsewhere abroad
9	NIU (not in universe)

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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the county of birth.

Universe

Ireland 2016: Present persons [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

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