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X Recenseamento Geral do Brasil. Censo Demográfico 1991. - IPUMS Subset

Brazil, 1990
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BRA_1991_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, IPUMS
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Race or color (BR1991A_RACE)

Data file: BRA1991_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 305
End: 305
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="BR91A417"><span class="h3">9. Color</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 white<br />[] 2 black<br />[] 3 yellow<br />[] 4 mixed (<span class="lang">parda</span>)<br />[] 5 indigenous</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 White
2 Black
3 Yellow
4 Brown
5 Indigenous
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
<svar a="all" v="BR91A417"><span class="h3">Question 9 - Ethnic group or color</span><br />The Box corresponding to the respondent's declaration should be marked, with no interpretation by the Enumerator, considering, however, that yellow only applies to persons of Oriental origin and their descendants. Do not consider as yellow any <span class="pg">[p. 60]</span> person who has yellowish skin due to some disease, such as malaria, hookworm disease, etc.).<br />The term Indigenous applies not only to those who live in native villages or reservations, but also to their descendants who live outside such places.<br />The Box - Brown (<span class="lang">Parda</span>) - will be marked only for declarations different from white, black, yellow or indigenous, such as mulatto [mixed black and white], mixed white and Indian (<span class="lang">cabocla</span>), mixed black and Indian (<span class="lang">cafuza</span>), mixed white and Indian (<span class="lang">mameluca</span>), etc.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates race or color.
Universe
Brazil 1991: All persons

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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