Population Census Jamaica 1982 - IPUMS Subset

Jamaica, 1982

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Reference ID

JAM_1982_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Population Census Unit, Department of Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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May 03, 2012

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Year of immigration (JM1982A_0414)

Data file: JAM1982-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 187

End: 188

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Section 3: Migration
[All persons]

18. Year of immigration:

[This question was asked of foreign-born persons]
[] Before 1960
[] 1960-69
[] 1970-72
[] 1973-75
[] 1976
[] 1977
[] 1978
[] 1979
[] 1980
[] Not stated

Categories

Value	Category
1	Before 1960
2	1960-69
3	1970-72
4	1973-75
5	1976
6	1977
7	1978
8	1979
9	1980 or after
98	Unknown
99	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.

Interviewer instructions

Section 3 - Migration

5.29 General
Questions 15 to 18 deal with the movement of persons from parish to parish and into Jamaica. Questions 15 to 17 apply to all individuals, local or foreign born, while Question 18 relates to persons born abroad only.

5.33 Question 18 - Year of Immigration

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This question is to be addressed only to persons born outside of Jamaica (see Question 12 (b)) and relates to the time when the individual first came to live in Jamaica.
If the year stated is 1959 or some year before that, mark before 1960. If the year is 1960 or some year up to and including 1969 mark the response position 1960-69, and so on. For persons coming to live in the island after 1980, mark 1980.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the year during which the individual first came to live in Jamaica.

Universe

Persons not born in Jamaica

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Nativity and Birthplace Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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