Censo de Población y Viviendas 1962 - IPUMS Subset

Paraguay, 1962

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Reference ID

PRY_1962_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses (DGEC), Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Urban or rural previous residence (PY1962A_0421)

Data file: PRY1962-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 154

End: 154

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

General characteristics

For individuals of all ages

8. Place of origin of migration:

Write the name of the district or country (foreigners) of origin and mark the box corresponding to the type of locality.

____ District or country
[] 1 City, town
[] 2 Other

Categories

Value	Category
1	Urban
2	Rural
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

Item VIII: Place of origin of migration

150 - Annotate the name of the District of origin of the person who declared the year (Item 7) in which they established themselves in the place of enumeration.

151 - Immediately after annotating the name of the district, annotate if the person who emigrated came from an urban area or a rural area. A person is considered to have come from an urban area if they came from a city or town. They are considered to have emigrated from a rural area if they came from an estate, small village [paraje], post [puesto], hamlet, etc., located in any colony or company.

152 - In the first case (emigrated from an urban area) mark box 1; and, in the second case (emigrated from a rural area) mark box 2.

153 - If the person is a foreigner, simply annotate the name of country of origin and nothing more.

154 - If the person, particularly in the case of a national [i.e. citizen], is absolutely ignorant of the name of their district of origin, annotate "unknown."

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person previously resided in an urban or rural area.

Universe

Persons who migrated

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Migration Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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