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IV Housing Census and IX Population Census of 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Guatemala, 1981
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GTM_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS
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Member of indigenous group (GT1981A_INDIG)

Data file: GTM1981_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 240
End: 240
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">VII. People in the census household</span></p>

<p><span class="em">For all individuals</span>
<br />[Questions 1 - 8 were asked for all persons]</p>

<p>7. Ethnic group</p>
<div class="i1">Are you indigenous?<br /><br />[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No<br />[] 9 Unknown</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
9 Unknown
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
<svar v="GT81A402 GT81A403 GT81A404 GT81A405 GT81A406 GT81A408 GT81A409 GT81A410 GT81A411 GT81A412 GT81A413 GT81A414 GT81A415"><span class="h2">A. First block: personal characteristics (for all persons)</span><br /><br />This part of the census form is designed to study the composition of the population according to the following characteristics: relationship to the head of household, sex, age, marital status, maternal orphanhood, ethnicity, and disabilities.<br /><br />Questions 1-8 are presented to all enumerated persons, without exception, following the specific instructions presented below:<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="GT81A408"><span class="em">Question 7: ethnic group</span><br /><br />1. How to formulate the question<br /><br />The enumerator should take into account, as a benchmark, the social assessment of the person in the place in which the enumeration is conducted to determine if the enumerated person is indigenous or not.<br /><br />When enumerating a servant, the informant will be asked if the servant is indigenous or not. If there is doubt or the enumerated person is not a servant, the enumerator will fall back on the last option that will be to ask the person if he or she is <span class="lang">ladino</span> or indigenous. The answer given by the person is recorded.<br /><br />2. How to record the data<br /><br />If the person is indigenous, number "1" is circled, on the other hand, the number "2" is circled. If the informant cannot establish the ethnic group of the person, the category "9. unknown" is circled.<br /><br />3. Example:<br /><br />[These instructions refer to a graphic of question 7 of the census form]<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the individual is a member of an indigenous ethnic group.
Universe
Guatemala 1981: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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