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2000 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Trinidad and Tobago, 2000
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TTO_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Office, IPUMS
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Place where person spent census night (TT2000A_RESCENS)

Data file: TTO2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 382
End: 382
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 This household
2 Elsewhere in Trinidad and Tobago
3 Institution
4 Abroad
7 Other
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="h3">Section 12 - Census Night</span></p>

<p>This section is to be completed on the day after Census day i.e. 16th May, 2000. During the preliminary enumeration, you must complete Sections 13,l 4 and 15 after completing Section 11.</p>

<p><span class="em">Question 43 - Where did [the respondent] spend Census Night?</span></p>

<p>Census Night refers to the period up to midnight on the 15th May, 2000.</p>

<p>All members of the household enumerated in the preliminary enumeration and found absent on Census Night either because of death, no longer a member of the household, institutionalized or through permanent migration must be deleted from the household and an entry made in the relevant person number at the back of the questionnaire.</p>

<p>This does not apply to those persons, who because of their work, are away from the household on Census Night. Such persons include security personnel, watchmen, fishermen, taxi drivers, nurses, doctors and other hospital personnel. These persons are to be ticked as having spent Census Night in the household.
<br /><span class="pg">[p.63]</span></p>

<p>It must be noted, however, that members of the household who were temporarily away on Census Night, should be left as members of the household and box 2, 3, 4, 7 of this question ticked.</p>

<p>Babies born prior to midnight of the 15th May, 2000 are to be included in the household and sections I, and 2, completed for such individuals, as well as suitable amendments made to section 9.</p>

<p>Temporary visitors, as well as persons who joined the household subsequent to the preliminary enumeration and who spent Census Night in that household, are to be enumerated on May l61 i.e. during the Census Night, as additions, that is, new members of the household. Such situations may arise through marriage or residents returning from abroad.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the place where the person spent census night.
Universe
Trinidad and Tobago 2000: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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