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2011 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Botswana, 2011
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BWA_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistics Office, IPUMS
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Current country of residence (BW2011A_USUALCNTRY)

Data file: BWA2011_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 237
End: 239
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">A. Person Information</span></p>

<p>8. Where does [the respondent] usually live?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 0001 In this housing unit<br />[] 0002 Elsewhere in this locality<br />[] 66XX Elsewhere in Botswana [state the town / census district]<br />[] 7XXX Other country [see list]</div>
Categories
Value Category
001 Botswana
007 South Africa
009 Zambia
010 Zimbabwe
322 United Kingdom
099 Other Africa
299 Asia
997 Other countries
998 Unknown
999 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
131. Columns A7-A12
<br />These questions collect information about the place of birth, places of residence, and parental survival of the persons listed in column A1. This portion of the sample questionnaire is inserted on page 30 for easy reference.</p>

<p>133. Column A8: Place of usual living: Now
<br />Q. Where does the respondent usually live?
<br />The place where a person spends or lives most of the time is that person's place of usual living. For example, for children in boarding school or teachers teaching away from home, enter the name of the village where the school is located - or, if the school is outside Botswana, enter the name of the country where the school is located.</p>

<p>For a person who usually lives in this housing unit (i.e. where he/she is being enumerated), enter 0001. For a person who usually lives somewhere else in the general locality (as indicated on the top of the questionnaire) where enumeration is taking place, enter 0002. (However, in urban areas, if they live elsewhere in the same town they should be coded 0002 even if the actual locality within that town is different from the one stated at the top of the questionnaire).</p>

<p>For a person who usually lives somewhere else in Botswana, write down the name of the census district in the unshaded area under column A8.</p>

<p>For a person who usually lives outside Botswana, enter the name of the country in the unshaded space.</p>

<p>For non-citizens working permanently or on contract in Botswana, their place of usual living is where they usually live in Botswana. People whose usual place of living is outside Botswana will include; tourists or visiting businessmen (in Botswana for anything from a few days to a month or so); children who are at boarding school outside Botswana but who, during the census, are here on holiday; and people who work outside Botswana (e.g. on the mines in South Africa) and are visiting their families or friends for a period of leave.</p>

<p>In cases where the place of usual residence is not known, write 9999. If it is known that the person was outside Botswana although the exact country where the person is living not known, write 7999. Similarly if it is known that the place of usual residence is somewhere in Botswana though the exact location is not known, the code to use should be 6699.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's current country of residence.
Universe
Botswana 2011: Persons except institutionalized non-residents [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Migration: Global Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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