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Fifth Census of Canada 1911 - IPUMS Subset

Canada, 2011
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CAN_1911_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Department of Agriculture, Census Branch, IPUMS
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Province (string) (CA1911A_APROV)

Data file: CAN1911_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 129
End: 136
Width: 8
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">Population by name, personal description, etc.</span><div class="i1">Province<br />District No.<br />Enumeration District No.<br />in<br />City, town, village, township or parish</div>
Interviewer instructions
37. <span class="em">Abbreviations</span>. The names of the provinces and territories will be denoted as follows:</p>
<div class="i1">Alb. for Alberta.<br />B.C. for British Columbia.<br />Man. for Manitoba.<br />N.B. for New Brunswick.<br />N.S. for Nova Scotia.<br />N.W.T. for Northwest Territories<br />0. for Ontario. <br />P.E.I. for Prince Edward Island.<br />Q. for Quebec.<br />Sask. for Saskatchewan.<br />Yuk. for Yukon.</div><p>Other contractions will be explained in the Instructions for the several schedules wherever the use of them appears to be required.

Description

Definition
This variable is a string that indicates province, the first geographic unit.
Universe
Canada 1911: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Geography: A-E Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
This is a 8-digit numeric variable with 0 implied decimal places
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