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Census of Sweden 1910 - IPUMS Subset

Sweden, 1910
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SWE_1910_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Statistics Sweden, IPUMS
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Disability code (SE1910A_DISABCO)

Data file: SWE1910_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 921
End: 922
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">Parish book (all counties in Sweden, except the city of Stockholm)</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Column 2 </span>
<br />____ Occupation (office, trade) ____ Ethnicity (mention if foreign ethnicity)
<br />____ Disability (epilepsy, mentally ill, idiot, blind, deaf-mute)
Categories
Value Category
20 Epilepsy
21 Mental disease, insanity
22 Mental retardation, idiocy
24 Blind
25 Deaf
26 Deaf mute (or mute)
98 Other
99 No information in source
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
<span class="em">Instructions for filling out the enumeration forms</span>
<br />(Compare the following instructions with the attached example form)
<br />On filling out the form for extracts from the parish book the following rules should be followed.</p>

<p><span class="em">Column 2</span></p>

<p>c. For those persons that are in some way disabled it should be recorded if a person has epilepsy, is mentally ill (having been mentally healthy earlier), is an idiot (being mentally retarded from childhood), is blind or is deaf-mute.

Description

Definition
This variable describes whether a person was blind, deaf/dumb or mentally ill on census day.
Universe
Sweden 1910: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Disability Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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