V Censo de Población y IV de Vivienda 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Ecuador, 1990

Get Microdata

Reference ID

ECU_1990_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Dec 22, 2014

Last modified

Mar 29, 2019

Page views

15385

Downloads

3192

Age (EC1990A_0408)

Data file: ECU1990-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 151

End: 152

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 96

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For all individuals
[Applies to questions 1-8]

4. How old are you?

Write the age at last birthday. For those under one year write "00".

Years completed ____

Categories

Value	Category
0	0
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9
10	10
11	11
12	12
13	13
14	14
15	15
16	16
17	17
18	18
19	19
20	20
21	21
22	22
23	23
24	24
25	25
26	26
27	27
28	28
29	29
30	30
31	31
32	32
33	33
34	34
35	35
36	36
37	37
38	38
39	39
40	40
41	41
42	42
43	43
44	44
45	45
46	46
47	47
48	48
49	49
50	50
51	51
52	52
53	53
54	54
55	55
56	56
57	57
58	58
59	59
60	60
61	61
62	62
63	63
64	64
65	65
66	66
67	67
68	68
69	69
70	70
71	71
72	72
73	73
74	74
75	75
76	76
77	77
78	78
79	79
80	80
81	81
82	82
83	83
84	84
85	85
86	86
87	87
88	88
89	89
90	90
91	91
92	92
93	93
94	94
95	95
96	96 and older

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 4. How old is the person? (In years completed)

Ask the question and wait for the answer, do not write the year that they will complete even if it is only a few days or a few months away; write the number of years that were completed on the day of the census.

It is possible that elderly persons may not remember their exact age, in this case, the enumerator should try to verify the age with the national identification card or birth certificate. If this is not possible, try to help them figure out their age, mentioning historic dates, age at marriage, age at the birth of first child, etc. Where possible, avoid writing vague answers such as "about ... years old".

Another problem that you might encounter is that some people will give approximate ages, for example, those that end in 0 or 5. Insist that the person give precise information.

For persons less than one year old, write 00.

How old are you? Write the age at the last birthday. For those under 1 year old, write 00.

_____ Years completed

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the age of the individual.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Back to Catalog