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Censos Nacionales 1984. Octavo Censo Nacional de Población. Cuarto Censo Nacional de Vivienda - IPUMS Subset

Costa Rica, 1984
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CRI_1984_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Dirección General de Estadísticas y Censos, Ministerio de Economía y Comercio, IPUMS
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Canton of birth, recode (CR1984A_BPLCANT)

Data file: CRI1984_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 186
End: 186
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CR84A403 CR84A404 CR84A405">4. Place of birth<br /><div class="i1">[] 8 Here<br />____ District<br />____ Canton<br />____ Province<br />If born abroad:</div><br /><div class="i2">____ Country<br />_ _ _ _ Year of arrival in Costa Rica</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Same canton
2 Other canton
3 Other country
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 v="CR84A065 CR84A066 CR84A400 CR84A401 CR84A402 CR84A403 CR84A404 CR84A405 CR84A406 CR84A407 CR84A408 CR84A429 CR84A430"><span class="h2">First block of questions: for all persons</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CR84A403 CR84A404 CR84A405"><span class="h3">Question 4: Place of Birth</span><br /><br />This question supplies information about the geographic place where the person was born, considered this, as the <span class="em">place where the mother of the person resided habitually when they were born</span>.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 47] </span><br /><br />Convenient that you ask specifically in what district, canton and province the mother resided in at the moment of birth and not simply asking about where they were born, since the majority of persons are born in hospitals, clinics, etc. that generally are not found in the same place in which the mother resided.<br /><br />[Below the text is a form]<br /><br />Write down the response according to the following instructions:<br /><br /><div class="i1">1. Mark the circle "here", as when being born, the mother resided in the district, canton and province where the person is found to be enumerated in your segment.<br />2. If at the moment of birth the mother resided in another district, write down legibly the name of the district, canton and province. If you cannot obtain the information about the canton or province, write down the district and locality.<br />3. If the mother resided abroad, write down the name of the country. In this case, you should ask for the year of arrival to the country and write down the four digits in the four boxes put there for this purpose.</div><br /><br /><span class="em">Year of Arrival in Costa Rica</span><br /><br />When a person was born abroad, it does not matter what country, it is defined as <span class="em">year of arrival in Costa Rica</span>, which corresponds to the arrival with the purpose of establishing themselves in the country.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the respondent was born in the canton of current residence or elsewhere.
Universe
Costa Rica 1984: All persons

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Nativity and Birthplace Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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