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Intercensal Survey 2015 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2015
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MEX_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Person has a birth certificate or is registered at the civil registry of this country (MX2015A_CIVILREG)

Data file: MEX2015_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 213
End: 213
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
8. Birth certificate
<br />Does [the respondent] have a birth certificate or is [the respondent] registered in the civil registry?
<br />[Circle one code]</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No<br />[] 3 Registered in another country</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
3 Person is registered in other country
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
<span class="em">8. Birth Certificate</span>
<br />This question identifies if the occupants are registered in the Mexican civil registry and therefore, they have a birth certificate.</p>

<p>If the respondent says he/she has no birth certificate because it was lost, has not picked it up in the civil registration office, or it is keep in an institution, ask whether he/she is enrolled in the civil registry and if the answer is "yes", circle code 1; only when he/she states that is not enrolled in the civil registry, circle code 2 "no".</p>

<p>If the person was born in another country and he/she say that is registered in that country, circle code 3 "he/she is registered in another country".

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person has a birth certificate or is registered at the civil registry of Mexico.
Universe
Mexico 2015: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Nativity and Birthplace Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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