Third Census of Canada 1891 - IPUMS Subset

Canada, 1891

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Reference ID

CAN_1891_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of Agriculture, Census Branch, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 01, 2025

Last modified

Aug 01, 2025

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Line number (LINENUM)

Data file: CAN1891_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Continuous

Start: 257

End: 258

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

LINENUM indicates the line number of an individual on a given enumeration page (see PAGENUM).

Each page in the 1881 Canadian Census had 25 lines. Typographical errors in this column were cleaned by the 1881 Canadian Census Project staff so the file would sort properly. Some pages had blank lines at the bottom of the page, so the page will end at line 23 or 24. Some pages had a blank line at the top of the page or somewhere in the middle. If the enumerator "squeezed" an extra person between two lines, the lines following that extra person were renumbered so that the page ends on line 26. For those pages, the line numbers on the database will be "one off" the line numbers on the manuscript census, but it was decided that to preserve the numerical integrity of this field (for the purpose of sorting), this was the best solution.

Each page in the 1891 Canadian Census also had 25 lines.

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

This is a 2-digit numeric variable with 0 implied decimal places

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