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XIII National Population and II Housing Census 1964 - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1964
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Reference ID
COL_1964_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Area (CO1964A_0005)

Data file: COL1964-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 88
End: 88
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
A--Geographic location




____ I- Department, Administration, or Precinct
____ II- Municipality
____ III- Administrative unit
____ Judicial Precinct
____ IV- Administrative section
____ Hamlet
V-


[ ] Urban Area
[ ] Rural


____ VI- Zone number
____ VII- Sector
____ VIII- Section
____ IX- Block
____ X- Address of the building
____ XI- Apartment number
Categories
Value Category
1 Head town/urban
2 Not head town/rural
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
V - Urban area

For enumerating purposes urban areas will be considered surfaces occupied by cities, municipal capitals, capitals of administrative units, police inspectorates, and hamlets without authority where buildings are grouped.

A cross should be marked if the area has these characteristics.

Rural area

Rural area is understood to be the surface occupied by agricultural farms, livestock farms or unexploited or unproductive regions. In these surfaces the houses of habitation are not considered to be grouped.

A cross should be marked in the areas that have these characteristics.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the area of location is a headtown (urban) or not (rural).
Universe
All records

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Geography: A-L Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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