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 in 2000 (CM2005A_URBAN5YR)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 267

End: 267

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="CM05A479 CM05A480 CM05A522 CM05A524 CM05A525">11. What was each person's main place of residence in 2000? _____<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

<span class="h3">Question 11 and after should only be asked to present and absent household residents.</span></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CM05A479 CM05A480 CM05A522 CM05A524 CM05A525"><span class="em">11. Place of residence in 2000</span><br />The variable for the place of residence in 2000 is for all people born before January 1 2000. Ask all these people the following questions:<br /><div class="i1">What was your main place of residence in 2000?</div><br /><br />If the main place of residence was Cameroon,<br /><div class="i1">-Mark the quarter or the district on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order number of the surveyed person.</div><br /><br />If the main location of residence is outside of Cameroon,<br /><div class="i1">-Mark the country on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order number of the surveyed person.<br />-Then ask them if the location was a city or a village<br />-Mark in the proper space the place of residence code in 2000 (1 = urban, 2 = rural)</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether or not a person's place of residence in 1998 or 2000 was urban or rural.

Universe

Cameroon 2005: Residents of the household age 5+ [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept

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

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