Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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Reference ID

CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS

Collection(s)

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

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Sex (CM2005A_SEX)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 243

End: 243

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="CM05A467">Sex<br /><div class="i1">[] Male<br />[] Female</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Male
2	Female

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

<svar a="all" v="CM05A467"><span class="em">Sex</span><br /><div class="i1">-Mark the code corresponding to the sex of each person surveyed after his name.</div><br />If you have doubts about the sex, you can formulate the question in the following way:<br />"Just to be certain, is Ramadan a man or a woman?"<br /><div class="i1">-Conversely, avoid questions like "What is you sex, ma'am?"</div><br />Codes of the terms of the sex variable are:<br /><div class="i1">1 = Male<br />2 = Female,</div><br /><br />N.B. The answer is required. Non-responses are not accepted.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates a person's sex.

Universe

Cameroon 2005: All persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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