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Fourth National Population Census - IPUMS Subset

China, 1990
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CHN_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
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Month of birth (CN1990A_BIRTHM)

Data file: CHN1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 164
End: 165
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CN90A403 CN90A404 CN90A422">4. Age: _ _ _<br /><div class="i1">Born in the year: _ _ _ _<br />Born in the month: _ _</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
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="CN90A403 CN90A404 CN90A422">4. <span class="em">Age</span> -- Fill in the age, month and year of birth. For age, only count the number of full years from birthday to the standard time of Census. For those less than one year old, fill in "0". If there is an elderly in the household who is a hundred years old, fill in the "Remark" that this person is a hundred years old. Birth date is by the Gregorian calendar. Convert the birth date into the form of Gregorian calendar if the birth date is remembered in the form of Chinese calendar; the conversion should follow the cross-list of age in the appendix. As a rule of thumb, the difference between the month in the lunar calendar and that in the Gregorian one is about one month. When converting the lunar calendar to Gregorian one, enumerator can just add one to the birth date. Just need to pay attention that Dec in the lunar calendar is January the following year in Gregorian calendar.<br /><br />Fill in the month and year of birth date and age in Arabic numerals.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates respondent's birth month.
Universe
China 1990: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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