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X Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Vivienda 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Costa Rica, 2011
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Reference ID
CRI_2011_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
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Dec 19, 2016
Last modified
Dec 22, 2016
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Identification

Survey ID Number
CRI_2011_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Title
X Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Vivienda 2011 - IPUMS Subset
Translated Title
X National Census of Population and VI Housing 2011
Country/Economy
Name Country code
Costa Rica CRI
Study type
Population and Housing Census [hh/popcen]
Series Information
En Costa Rica han sido efectuados diez censos de población, en los años: 1864, 1883, 1892, 1927, 1950, 1963, 1973, 1984, 2000 y 2011.

Estos censos han ofrecido información básica sobre los habitantes del país, la cantidad y distribución geográfica de la población, sexo, edad, parentesco entre los miembros del hogar, migración, discapacidad, etnia, cobertura de la seguridad social, empleo, grupo ocupacional, rama de actividad, categoría ocupacional, desempleo, inactividad, necesidades básicas insatisfechas, nivel educativo, asistencia a la educación regular, alfabetización, fecundidad, y mortalidad.

Por su parte, en el país han sido ejecutados seis censos de vivienda, en los años 1949, 1963, 1973, 1984, 2000 y 2011.

Los censos de vivienda han permitido producir estadísticas sobre la situación y condiciones habitacionales de la población en términos del tipo de vivienda, número de aposentos, tipo y estado de los materiales de construcción, disponibilidad de servicios básicos: procedencia del agua, tenencia de agua intradomiciliaria, tenencia de la luz eléctrica, combustible utilizado para cocinar, tenencia y tipo de servicio sanitario y equipamiento de la vivienda, entre otros.

Previo al desarrollo del Censo 2011, se realizó un Censo Piloto en el año 2010 en Palmares, cantón de la provincia de Alajuela, en el cual se sometieron a prueba aspectos metodológicos y operativos relacionados con la cartografía, la boleta censal, la organización del operativo de campo, la capacitación, la campaña de comunicación y el procesamiento de la información, ello con el fin de realizar los ajustes necesarios para la ejecución del Censo 2011.
Abstract
IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.
Kind of Data
Census/enumeration data [cen]
Unit of Analysis
Dwelling

Version

Version Description
Version 6.4. The datasets contain selected variables from the original census microdata plus harmonized variables from the IPUMS-International database.

In v6.4, the research team continued to carry out improvements to geography, providing harmonized geographic units for the second administrative level for roughly half the countries. More information about IPUMS geography variables is available here <https://international.ipums.org/international/geography_variables.shtml>. Also, approximately 100 integrated variables were renamed. Affected variables with their current and previous names are listed here <https://international.ipums.org/international/resources/misc_docs/renamed_variables_sept2015.pdf>. Geography variable also underwent wholesale renaming.

In this update, IPUMS added 19 new samples for Armenia, Austria, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Mozambique, Paraguay, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and Spain. Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Paraguay were newly added countries to IPUMS. Samples for other countries extend pre-existing series for those countries.
Version Date
2016-04-25

Scope

Notes
UNITS IDENTIFIED:
- Dwellings: Yes
- Vacant units: Yes
- Households: Yes
- Individuals: Yes
- Group quarters: Yes

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS:
- Dwellings: A structurally separate and independent enclosure designed to house one or more private households possessing the following characteristics: it is separate, enclosed by walls and covered by a roof; it was built, transformed, arranged, or available for the housing of people, or, even if it was not designed for this purpose, it is inhabited by people at the time of the census; and it is independent, with entrances and direct access from the street or hallway, stairs, patio, corridor, public or communal terrain, etc., so that persons do not have to pass through the interior of another dwelling in order to enter or leave the dwelling.
- Households: A private household can be composed of one person or a group of people with or without family ties that consume and share a common budget to buy food.
- Group quarters: Any building designed to be inhabited by people, usually without family ties that live together for reasons of health, education, religion, work, or other causes. Usually, in collective dwellings there are not family ties and a third person imposes cohabitation rules that the residents must respect.
Topics
Topic Vocabulary
Technical Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Geography: A-L Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Appliances, Mechanicals, Other Amenities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Constructed Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Other Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Technical Person Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Nativity and Birthplace Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Migration Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Income Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Disability Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Other Person Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Work: Industry Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Fertility and Mortality Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Constructed Family Interrelationship Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Geography: Global Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National coverage
Geographic Unit
Canton
Universe
All live individuals at 12am on 29 May 2011

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos
Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling, drawn by the country
Weighting
Self-weighting.
Expansion factor=10

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2011-05-30 2011-06-03
Time periods
Start date End date
2011-05-30 2011-05-30
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collection Notes
De jura CENSUS DAY: May 30, 2011

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
A single enumeration form requested information on the dwelling, household, and individuals.

Access policy

Contacts
Name
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos
Confidentiality
IPUMS-International distributes integrated microdata of individuals and households only by agreement of collaborating national statistical offices and under the strictest of confidence. Before data may be distributed to an individual researcher, an electronic license agreement must be signed and approved. To gain access to the data, a researcher must agree to the following: (1) Implement security measures to prevent unauthorized access to census microdata. Under IPUMS-International agreements with collaborating agencies, redistribution of the data to third parties is prohibited. (2) Use the microdata for the exclusive purposes of scholarly research and education. Researchers must explicitly agree to not use microdata acquired for any commercial or income-generating venture. (3) Maintain the confidentiality of persons, households, and other entities. Any attempt to ascertain the identity of persons or households from the microdata is prohibited. Alleging that a person or household has been identified is also prohibited. (4) Report all publications based on these data to IPUMS-International, which will in turn pass the information on to the relevant national statistical agencies. Once a project is approved, a password is issued and data may be acquired through the Internet. Penalties for violating the license include: revocation of the license, recall of all microdata acquired, filing of a motion of censure to the appropriate professional organizations, and civil prosecution under the relevant national or international statutes. These safeguards mirror the principles from the Joint ECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality. Employees of the Minnesota Population Center who work with the census microdata to produce the harmonized database also sign agreements to respect the confidentiality of the data. IPUMS-International works with each country's statistical office to minimize the risk of disclosure of respondent information. The details of the confidentiality protections vary across countries, but in all cases, names and detailed geographic information are suppressed and top-codes are imposed on variables such as income that might identify specific persons. In addition, IPUMS-International uses a variety of technical procedures to enhance confidentiality protection. These include the following: (1) Swapping an undisclosed fraction of records from one administrative district to another to make positive identification of individuals impossible. (2) Randomizing the placement of households within districts to disguise the order in which individuals were enumerated or the data processed. (3) Aggregating codes of sensitive characteristics (e.g., grouping together very small ethnic categories) (4) Top- and bottom-coding continuous variables to prevent identification of extreme cases. The safety record for public-use census microdata is apparently perfect. In almost four decades of use, there has not been a single verified breach of statistical confidentiality. The measures implemented by the IPUMS-International are designed to extend this record.
Access conditions
An adapted version of the dataset, harmonized for international comparability, is available from IPUMS-International (https://international.ipums.org/international/) under the following conditions:


IPUMS-International distributes integrated microdata of individuals and households only by agreement of collaborating national statistical offices and under the strictest of confidence. Before data may be distributed to an individual researcher, an electronic license agreement must be signed and approved. To gain access to the data, a researcher must agree to the following:

(1) Implement security measures to prevent unauthorized access to census microdata. Under IPUMS-International agreements with collaborating agencies, redistribution of the data to third parties is prohibited.

(2) Use the microdata for the exclusive purposes of scholarly research and education. Researchers must explicitly agree to not use microdata acquired for any commercial or income-generating venture.

(3) Maintain the confidentiality of persons, households, and other entities. Any attempt to ascertain the identity of persons or households from the microdata is prohibited. Alleging that a person or household has been identified is also prohibited.

(4) Report all publications based on these data to IPUMS-International, which will in turn pass the information on to the relevant national statistical agencies.

Once a project is approved, a password is issued and data may be acquired through the Internet. Penalties for violating the license include: revocation of the license, recall of all microdata acquired, filing of a motion of censure to the appropriate professional organizations, and civil prosecution under the relevant national or international statutes.

These safeguards mirror the principles from the Joint ECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality. Employees of the Minnesota Population Center who work with the census microdata to produce the harmonized database also sign agreements to respect the confidentiality of the data.
Citation requirements
Minnesota Population Center. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International: Version 6.4 [Machine-readable database]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2015.

Researchers should also acknowledge the statistical agency that originally produced the data:
Costa Rica, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, X Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Vivienda

The licensing agreement for use of IPUMS-International data requires that users supply IPUMS-International with the title and full citation for any publications, research reports, or educational materials making use of the data or documentation.

Copies of such materials are also gratefully received at ipums@umn.edu.

Printed matter should be sent to:
IPUMS-International
Minnesota Population Center
University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall
225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Access authority
Name Affiliation URL
IPUMS International Minnesota Population Center Link
Location of Data Collection
IPUMS

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Copyright
(c) Copyright 2011, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos and Minnesota Population Center

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_CRI_2011_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Minnesota Population Center MPC University of Minnesota Integration Harmonization Documentation
Development Data Group DECDG World Bank DDI editing
Date of Metadata Production
2016-04-25
DDI Document version
- v6.4 (April 2016)

Documentation of census data and harmonized variables as found in IPUMS-International. The International Household Survey Network (IHSN) contracted IPUMS-International for generating DDI and Dublin Core-compliant metadata related to population and housing census datasets from developing countries. The objective was to provide countries with detailed metadata in a format compatible with the DDI standard used by most of these countries, with a view to guarantee the preservation of the data and metadata, and the publishing of metadata.

The intellectual rights (including copyright) for the data and metadata in IPUMS are retained by the countries under a Memorandum of Understanding with the contributing countries. IPUMS-International has distribution rights to the metadata and data. The XML documents generated by this process are viewed as a distribution of the metadata.

Fields edited by the World Bank are: DDI ID and study ID to match World Bank study naming convention, as well as DDI Document Version and Version Description to reflect changes included in version 6.4.

Previous version documented in the World Bank Microdata Library:

- v6.3 (August 2014)
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