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

Costa Rica, 2011
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CRI_2011_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Send money or goods abroad (CR2011A_0079)

Data file: CRI2011-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 200
End: 200
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
8. In the past year, did any member of this householdÂ…



Send money or goods to someone that lives abroad, for the use of that household?


[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Yes
2 No
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
Question 8: Remittances

8. In the past year, did an member of this household

Receive money or goods from someone that lives abroad, for the use of this household?


[] 1 yes
[] 2 no


Send money or goods to someone that lives abroad, for the use of that household?


[] 1 yes
[] 2 no



Received money or goods from someone that lives abroad, for the use of this household: includes the cases of people of the household that received money or goods from family members, friends, acquaintances, or other people that live abroad, always and whenever the goods received are for the use of that household, that's to say, designed for the consumption or savings of the people of the household that receive the remittance.

As such this does not include:


The cases of the households that receive money from abroad so that some person, here in the country, carries out bank transactions or another task in the name of the person that sent it.

The cases in which some people of the household receives a salary or pension from another country are not considered a remittance but rather payment for a job carried out.


Sent money or goods to someone that lives abroad, for the use of that household: includes the cases of the people of the household that send money to family members, friends, acquaintances, or other people that live abroad, whenever the goods sent are for the use of that household, that's to say, directed to the consumption or savings of the people of the household that receive the remittance.

As such this does not include:


The cases of the households that send money abroad so that some person (abroad) pays debts or completes bank transactions in another country.

The cases of the people of the household that send money to other countries for the payment of employee salaries abroad.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the household sends money or goods abroad.
Universe
Private dwellings

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Other Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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