1981 Census of Canada - IPUMS Subset

Canada, 1981

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Reference ID

CAN_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Statistics Canada, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Retirement or pension income (INCRET)

Data file: CAN1981_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 177

End: 182

Width: 6

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

INCRET reports the amount of income the respondent received from a retirement program or account, or from a pension. The amounts are provided on a monthly or annual basis, depending on the sample.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Income Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

INCRET is a 6-digit numeric variable.

Codes999998 = Unknown/missing.
999999 = NIU (not in universe).

Top codes:Panama 2000: 9997+
U.S.A. 1990: State median of values over 30,000
U.S.A. 2000: State median of values over 52,000
U.S.A. 2005: State median of values over 41,000
U.S.A. 2010-2020: 99.5th percentile within each state (higher values are the state means of all cases above these cutoffs).
Puerto Rico 1990: State median of values over 20,000
Puerto Rico 2000: Mean of values over 52,000
Puerto Rico 2005: Mean of values above the 99.5th percentile
Puerto Rico 2010: 47,400+
Puerto Rico 2015, 2020: 99.5th percentile within the state (higher values are the state means of all cases above these cutoffs).
Trinidad and Tobago 2000: 4000+

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