Third General Census of Population and Housing 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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Reference ID

CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Main reason for being in the street (CM2005A_0458)

Data file: CMR2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 193

End: 193

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Main reason for being in the street

Categories

Value	Category
1	Looking for freedom
2	Parents unemployed
3	Other
8	Unknown
9	Non applicable

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

Q11. Main reason for being on the street
The main reason for being on the street for a homeless individual is the main motivation that justifies his abandonment of society. The codes for the main reason for being on the street are:

1-Search for freedom
2-violence of relatives
3-loss of parents (orphan)
4-divorce of parents
5-homelessness of parents
6-bad company
7-abadonment of education
9-other to specify

Mark the code corresponding to the response in the reserved space.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates a homeless person's principle reason for being in the street.

Universe

Persons in homeless households

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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