National Census of Dwellings and Population 1971 - IPUMS Subset

Nicaragua, 1971

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Reference ID

NIC_1971_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Year of arrival to the country (NI1971A_0408)

Data file: NIC1971-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 163

End: 164

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

8. Year of arrival in the country

Only for those individuals born abroad

In what year did you arrive to live in Nicaragua?

19 ____ Year
[] 9 Native-born

Categories

Value	Category
1	Before 1950
2	1950 - 1954
3	1955 - 1959
4	1960 - 1964
5	1965
6	1966
7	1967
8	1968
9	1969
10	1970 - 1971
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

Geographic characteristics
Questions related to geographical characteristics (place of birth, year of arrival to Nicaragua of the foreign-born population, current usual place of residence,

[p. 51]

place of usual residence in April of 1966) are presented in order to study the internal and international migration of the population. The total number of migrants, the direction and tendency of the movements, as well as the principal characteristics of this population are investigated.

Question #8: Year of arrival in country
This question is only presented to those born abroad.

a. How to ask the question:
In which year did the person come to live in Nicaragua?

[p. 52]

b. How to record the information:
The year declared by the informant is recorded.

If the informant does not know the year of arrival to the country of one of the household members, the word "Unknown" is recorded in the space provided for the year.

An "X" is marked in the "Native ___" box that has been provided for those born in Nicaragua. This [box] is provided so that no box is left blank on the census form.

c. Examples:

[These instructions refer to a graph of question 8 on the census form]

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's year of arrival to the country (for those born abroad).

Universe

Persons born abroad

concept

Concept

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

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