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Third General Census of Population and Housing 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005
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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Minnesota Population Center
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Main reason for being in the street (CM2005A_0458)

Data file: CMR2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 193
End: 193
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Main reason for being in the street
Categories
Value Category
1 Looking for freedom
2 Parents unemployed
3 Other
8 Unknown
9 Non applicable
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
Q11. Main reason for being on the street
The main reason for being on the street for a homeless individual is the main motivation that justifies his abandonment of society. The codes for the main reason for being on the street are:


1-Search for freedom
2-violence of relatives
3-loss of parents (orphan)
4-divorce of parents
5-homelessness of parents
6-bad company
7-abadonment of education
9-other to specify


Mark the code corresponding to the response in the reserved space.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates a homeless person's principle reason for being in the street.
Universe
Persons in homeless households

concept

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