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Intercensal Population Survey 1976 - IPUMS Subset

Indonesia, 1976
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IDN_1976_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Central Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
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Reason for move (ID1976A_MIGREAS)

Data file: IDN1976_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 244
End: 244
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="ID76A422 ID76A423 ID76A424"> [Questions A17a and A17b were asked of persons not living in the same district five years ago]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="ID76A424">A17b. What was the reason for your move?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Looking for work<br />[] 2 Transferred<br />[] 3 Other work-related reason<br />[] 4 School<br />[] 5 Marriage<br />[] 6 Following family<br />[] 7 Going home<br />[] 8 Other</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Looking for work
2 Work transfer
3 Other work reason
4 School (including tertiary)
5 Marriage
6 Following family
7 Going home
8 Other
9 Unknown
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
<svar v="ID76A422 ID76A423 ID76A424"><span class="em">Columns (6) through (12)</span><br />If the answer for column (5) is "Y", then 5 years ago the person lived in this regency / municipality and the questions for column (6) through (12) do not need to be asked; go directly to page 5 (in the original text the page number mentioned here is 4, but that is incorrect).<br />If answer for column (5) is T, 5 years ago this person lived in a different regency/municipality so ask where he lived 5 years ago beginning with question Al7a and put the answers in columns (6) through (12).<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="ID76A424"><span class="em">Column (12) Reason for migration</span><br /><span class="em">Concept and definitions</span><br />Reasons for moving to the current place of residence are categorized below:<br /><div class="i1">1. Looking for work: a person who changes his residence because he was looking for work.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p.18]</span><br /><br />2. Job relocation: a person moves because his job/activity was relocated to this place.<br /><br />3. Other job-related reasons for moving other than 1 and 2: for example, a person leaves his job, etc.<br /><br />4. Attending school: a person's move is made for educational purposes, moves to a new school, continues his education, leaves school, etc.<br /><br />5. Marriage: for example, joins husband/wife because of he/she has married.<br /><br />6. Relatives/family moved and he/she had to move with them: a child moves with his parents, a wife/husband moves with his spouse, a child moves with his grandparents, etc.<br /><br />7. Returned to his family's home: moves because he returns home, for example, after returning from abroad, retired, elderly, etc.<br /><br />8. Other: other reasons that do not include any of the above reasons such as security reasons, economic reasons, etc.</div><br /><br />The way to ask the question is as follows:<br />"What was your reason for moving to this place?", "Was it because (mention a few reasons such as those given above)?"<br /><br />Write the code in the column in accordance with the respondent's answer.<br />This column can only contain one code so only accept the main reason for moving.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's reason for moving to a different district from the one resided 5 years ago.
Universe
Indonesia 1976: Persons age 5+ who resided in a different district 5 years ago [discrepancies: none]

concept

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