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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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Sex (CR1984A_SEX)

Data file: CRI1984_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 183
End: 183
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CR84A401">2. Sex<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Male<br />[] 2 Female</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Male
2 Female
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="CR84A065 CR84A401"><span class="h3">Question 2: Sex</span><br /><br />This question is very simple you should only mark if the person is Man or Woman.<br /><br />[Below the text is a form]<br /><br />If the person is not present you should ask man or woman, since there are many names that can be used for both sexes, such is the case of Raquel, Concepción, Carmen, etc; also there can be the case of a name in any foreign language.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's sex.
Universe
Costa Rica 1984: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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