Population and Housing Census 1980 - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 1980

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Reference ID

MYS_1980_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of Statistics Malaysia, Minnesota Population Center

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Place of previous residence (MY1980A_0418)

Data file: MYS1980-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 186

End: 186

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

21. Where did you last live previous to this kampung/town?

[] In some other kampung/town in Malaysia
[] In this kampung/town since birth (Skip to 24)
[] Outside Malaysia (Skip to 24)

Categories

Value	Category
1	In some other kampong/town
2	In this kampong/town since birth
3	Outside Malaysia

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

Question 21
This question and the next are to find out where the person last lived before coming to this locality. In this question you are to mark one of the 3 boxes.

The first box is meant for persons who have previously lived in another locality within Malaysia.

The second box is for persons who have always lived in this locality i.e. since they were born.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the place of previous residence.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Migration Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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