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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Municipality (string) (CA1911A_MUNISTR)

Data file: CAN1911_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 616

End: 667

Width: 52

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><p>4. Place of habitation (Township or parish, city, town or village. Range or concession and lot of cadastral number if in township or parish. Street and house number if in a city, town or village. Or other description.)

Interviewer instructions

82. <span class="em">Place of habitation</span>. The place of habitation, column 4, refers to the place of residence. In the case of a city, town or incorporated village, the enumerator will enter the number of the house and the name of the street, as 14 Bay street; and in the case of rural districts the name of the township, lot, parish or cadastral number: Provided, however, that in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta the location be designated by township, range and meridian, as T. 14, R. 9, W. 3. See Sample Schedule.

Description

Definition

This variable is a string that indicates a household's geographic municipality.

Universe

Canada 1911: All households

concept

Concept

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

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

This is a 52-digit numeric variable with 0 implied decimal places

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