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Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005
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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS
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Urban-rural status of previous residence (CM2005A_PREVURB)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 278
End: 278
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CM05A481 CM05A482 CM05A523 CM05A526 CM05A527">12. Former place of residence<br />Where was [person] living before settling in the current place of residence (usual place)? ____ _<br /><div class="i1">See code list<br />[] Urban<br />[] Rural</div><br /></svar>
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
<svar a="all" v="CM05A481 CM05A482 CM05A523 CM05A526 CM05A527"><span class="em">12. Former place of residence</span><br />The former place of residence is the quarter or the district where the surveyed person lived (for at least 6 months) right before moving to the place of residence during the surveying of Cameroon, or the country if they lived abroad.<br /><div class="i1">Where did ____ live before moving to the current, typical place of residence?<br /><br />-Mark the name (quarter/district or foreign country) on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order number of the surveyed person.</div><br />If the answer is Yes, 2 situations may present themselves<br /><div class="i1">a) The former place of residence was in Cameroon,</div><br /><div class="i2">-Mark the name of the quarter or district corresponding to the former place of residence on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order number of the surveyed person.</div><br /><br />Then ask the following question:<br /><div class="i1">Q. Was the town in which you lived in this quarter or in this district the main authority of the quarter or district or of a village?<br />b) The former place of residence was outside of Cameroon,</div><br /><div class="i2">-Mark the full name of the country of former residence on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order number of the surveyed person.</div><br /><br />Then ask the following question:<br /><div class="i1">Q. The town that you lived in, in this country, was it in an urban location (city) or a rural one (village)?</div><br />[Examples omitted]<br /><br />Then ask him the following question:<br /><div class="i1">Q. Did you live in Mbalmayo or a village in this quarter or in this district?<br />-Mark in the space provided the code for the former place of residence (1 = urban, 2 = rural)</div><br />[Example C omitted]<br /><br />Then ask him the following question:<br /><div class="i1">Q. Did you live in Sa'a or a village in this quarter or in this district?<br />-Mark in the space provided the code for the former place of residence (1 = urban, 2 = rural)</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates a person's urban or rural previous place of residence.
Universe
Cameroon 2005: Residents of the household [discrepancies: type I 0.1%, type II 0.1%]

concept

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