Recensement General de la Population du Logement et de l'Agriculture de 1971 - IPUMS Subset

Haiti, 1971

Get Microdata

Reference ID

HTI_1971_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Département des Finances et des Affaires Economiques, Institute Haïtien de Statistique, Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Sep 15, 2013

Last modified

Mar 29, 2019

Page views

9113

Downloads

529

Age in years (HT1971A_0404)

Data file: HTI1971-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 123

End: 125

Width: 3

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

5. Age
For children less than 1 year old, write the age in months from 0 to 11

_ _ Years
_ _ Months

Categories

Value	Category
0	Less than 1 year
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9
10	10
11	11
12	12
13	13
14	14
15	15
16	16
17	17
18	18
19	19
20	20
21	21
22	22
23	23
24	24
25	25
26	26
27	27
28	28
29	29
30	30
31	31
32	32
33	33
34	34
35	35
36	36
37	37
38	38
39	39
40	40
41	41
42	42
43	43
44	44
45	45
46	46
47	47
48	48
49	49
50	50
51	51
52	52
53	53
54	54
55	55
56	56
57	57
58	58
59	59
60	60
61	61
62	62
63	63
64	64
65	65
66	66
67	67
68	68
69	69
70	70
71	71
72	72
73	73
74	74
75	75
76	76
77	77
78	78
79	79
80	80
81	81
82	82
83	83
84	84
85	85
86	86
87	87
88	88
89	89
90	90
91	91
92	92
93	93
94	94
95	95
96	96
97	97
98	98
99	99 and over
999	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

Column 5- Age: The age should be indicated in completed years, i.e., the age of the individual at his/her last birthday. Write the age of each person enumerated in integers, for example: 15, 21, 35, 85, years. However, for newborns or babies of less than one year old write '0' and the number of months since the birth of the baby.

For example:

a) A person aged 43:

_ 4 3 _
Years

_ _ _ _
Months

b) An 8-month old baby:

_ _ 0 _
Years

_ _ 8 _
Months

If the person in question doesn't know his/her exact age, use the historical calendar. Estimate the person's age first by asking the following question: 'Who was the president of Haiti when you were born?' and then narrow in on the age using specific historical events known to the individual (see appendix I), or else by comparing him/her with a family member whose age you know for certain.

Please note: The head of household often forgets to declare young children without prompting. When you write down the youngest child declared by the head of household, be persistent [in finding out if it is the youngest child] by asking the following type of questions:

Is this in fact the youngest child? or
Are there any babies? Who are they?

pg 28

In the same way, you should systematically ask:

Are there any children aged less than one year, either present or absent?

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's age in years.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Back to Catalog