National Censuses 2017: 12th Population Census, 7th Housing Census, 3rd Indigenous Communities Census, and 1st Farmer Communities Census - IPUMS Subset

Peru, 2017

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Reference ID

PER_2017_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Statistics and Computing, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Jul 30, 2025

Last modified

Aug 01, 2025

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Person weight (PERWT)

Data file: PER2017_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 34

End: 41

Width: 8

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

PERWT indicates the number of persons in the actual population represented by the person in the sample.

For the samples that are truly weighted (see the comparability discussion), PERWT must be used to yield accurate statistics for the population.

NOTE: PERWT has 2 implied decimal places. That is, the last two digits of the eight-digit variable are decimal digits, but there is no actual decimal in the data.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Technical Person Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

PERWT is an 8-digit numeric variable with 2 implied decimal places. See the variable description.

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