Fourth Census of Canada 1901 - IPUMS Subset

Canada, 2001

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Reference ID

CAN_1901_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of Agriculture, Census Branch, IPUMS

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Sep 03, 2025

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First name (NAMEFRST)

Data file: CAN1901_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Continuous

Start: 205

End: 236

Width: 32

Range: -

Format: character

Description

Definition

NAMEFRST is an alphabetic variable giving a person's full first name. It will primarily be of use to researchers linking the historical census data to other sources of demographic data, or researchers whose research topic involves naming patterns. Because of the length of this variable (32 columns), and the size of the dataset other researchers should not select this variable.

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

This is a 32-digit numeric variable with 0 implied decimal places

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