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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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Sex (GT1981A_SEX)

Data file: GTM1981_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 233
End: 233
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>3. Sex</p>

<p>Are you male or female?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Male<br />[] 2 Female</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Male
2 Female
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="GT81A403"><span class="em">Question 3: sex</span><br /><br />1. How to formulate the question<br /><br />Are you a man or a woman?<br /><br />2. How to record the data<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 66]</span><br /><br />The number of the corresponding category is circled.<br /><br />3. Example:<br /><br />[These instructions refer to a graphic of question 3 of the census form]<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person' gender.
Universe
Guatemala 1981: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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