Census of Canada 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Canada, 1981

Get Microdata

Reference ID

CAN_1981_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Statistics Canada, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website Interactive tools

Created on

Sep 24, 2014

Last modified

Apr 18, 2019

Page views

20113

Downloads

741

Ethnic origin (CA1981A_0441)

Data file: CAN1981-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 249

End: 250

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

26. To which ethnic or cultural group did you or your ancestors belong on first coming to this continent?

See guide for further information.
[] French
[] English
[] Irish
[] Scottish
[] German
[] Italian
[] Ukrainian
[] Dutch (Netherlands)
[] Polish
[] Jewish
[] Chinese
[] Other (specify) ____

Native peoples

[] Inuit
[] Status or registered Indian
[] Non-status Indian
[] Metis

Categories

Value	Category
1	British
2	French
3	African and Caribbean Haitian
4	Chinese
5	Croatian, Serbian, etc.
6	Czech and Slovak
7	Dutch
8	German
9	Greek
10	Italian
11	Jewish
12	Magyar (Hungarian)
13	Polish
14	Portuguese
15	Scandinavia
16	Ukrainian
17	Other single responses
18	British and French
19	British and other
20	French and other
21	British and French and other
22	Other multiple responses
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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the ethnic or cultural group(s) to which the respondent's ancestors belong.

Universe

All persons, excluding inmates

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Back to Catalog