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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Number of years in current place of residence (CM2005A_RESDUR)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 289

End: 291

Width: 3

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="CM05A483">13. Length of time spent at usual place of residence<br />For how many years has each person been living in this subdivision? _ _<br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
000	0
001	1
002	2
003	3
004	4
005	5
006	6
007	7
008	8
009	9
010	10
011	11
012	12
013	13
014	14
015	15
016	16
017	17
018	18
019	19
020	20
021	21
022	22
023	23
024	24
025	25
026	26
027	27
028	28
029	29
030	30
031	31
032	32
033	33
034	34
035	35
036	36
037	37
038	38
039	39
040	40
041	41
042	42
043	43
044	44
045	45
046	46
047	47
048	48
049	49
050	50
051	51
052	52
053	53
054	54
055	55
056	56
057	57
058	58
059	59
060	60
061	61
062	62
063	63
064	64
065	65
066	66
067	67
068	68
069	69
070	70
071	71
072	72
073	73
074	74
075	75
076	76
077	77
078	78
079	79
080	80
081	81
082	82
083	83
084	84
085	85
086	86
087	87
088	88
089	89
090	90
091	91
092	92
093	93
094	94
095	95
096	96
097	97
098	98
099	99
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

<svar a="all" v="CM05A483"><span class="em">13. Length of stay</span><br />This is the amount of time in years passed (whole number of years passed) since the person moved to the quarter or district where they currently live.<br /><div class="i1">Q. How many years have you lived/has ______ lived in this quarter/district/country?</div><br /><br />If a person is a resident, that means they are a long term resident in the quarter/district you are surveying.<br /><br />a) If the quarter or the district of birth is the same as the current location of residence and as the former location of residence, then the person in question has never moved, they live in the current quarter/district since birth.<br /><div class="i1">-Mark "since birth" on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order number of the surveyed person.</div><br />If the length of the residence is less than one year,<br /><div class="i1">-Mark '00' in the reserved space while respecting the registration order number of the surveyed person.</div><br /><br />For people who have had a length of residence of less than 98 years,<br /><div class="i1">-Mark the length of residence in the reserved space</div><br />For people who have a length of stay over to or equal to 98 years,<br /><div class="i1">-Mark 98 in the reserved spaces</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the number of years spent in a person's usual place of residence.

Universe

Cameroon 2005: Residents of the household [discrepancies: type I 0.1%, type II none]

concept

Concept

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

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