The Population and Housing Census of Thailand 1970 - IPUMS Subset

Thailand, 1970

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Reference ID

THA_1970_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Previous residence, urban (TH1970A_0412)

Data file: THA1970-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 155

End: 155

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

[Questions 12 and 13 are asked of persons age 5+ who lived fewer than 5 years in the present village or Municipal Area, as per question 11.]

13. Moved from another village or Municipal Area:

[] Village
[] M.A.

Categories

Value	Category
1	Non-municipal/rural area
2	Municipal/urban area
8	Unknown
9	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.

Interviewer instructions

[From column 11 to column 16, record only persons who are 5 years or older. For children who are 4 years old or younger, write a dash.]

Columns 11 through 13: Migration in the last 5 years

For columns 12 and 13: ask persons who record the number of years in residence as less than 5 years (record 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 in column 11)

Column 13: Whether the person has moved from village or municipal area
Ask: "Has the person moved from a village or a municipal area?"

If the answer is s/he moved from a municipal area, record "municipality".

If the answer is s/he moved from a village, record "village".

For children aged 5 years or younger and for people who record the number of years more than 5 years in column 11, write a dash in this column.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether a person's previous residence was an urban area.

Universe

Persons age 5+ who have lived less than 5 years at present village or metropolitan area

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Migration Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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