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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Main reason for being in the street (CM2005A_WHYHMLS)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 238

End: 238

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

<svar a="all" v="CM05A458"><span class="em">Q11. Main reason for being on the street</span><br />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:<br /><br /><div class="i1">1-Search for freedom<br />2-violence of relatives<br />3-loss of parents (orphan)<br />4-divorce of parents<br />5-homelessness of parents<br />6-bad company<br />7-abadonment of education<br />9-other to specify</div><br /><div class="i2">Mark the code corresponding to the response in the reserved space.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition

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

Universe

Cameroon 2005: Persons in homeless households [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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