Swiss Federal Population Census of 1970 - IPUMS Subset

Switzerland, 1970

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Reference ID

CHE_1970_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Federal Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

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Dec 19, 2014

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Place of birth (CH1970A_0403)

Data file: CHE1970-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 152

End: 152

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

A. Questions to all persons
[Applies to questions 1-15]

9. Place of birth (persons born in a hospital indicate the parents' or mother's residence at that time):

[] Municipality of current residency
[] Other municipality

____ Indicate which municipality
____ Canton or State (abbreviation)

Categories

Value	Category
1	Same community, same canton
2	Other community, same canton
3	Other community, other canton
4	Other country

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

Question 9: Place of birth
If the place of birth was in a foreign country, the name of the current country should be written in.

Description

Definition

This variable identifies the place of birth of the person.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Nativity and Birthplace Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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