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Censos Nacionales IX de Población y V de Vivienda 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Costa Rica, 2000
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CRI_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS
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Citizenship (CR2000A_NATION)

Data file: CRI2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 205
End: 205
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions 1 - 8 are] For all individuals</p>

<p><span class="em">5. What is the nationality of ____?</span><div class="i1">[] 1 Costa Rican by birth<br />[] 2 Costa Rican by naturalization<br />[] 3 Other (specify) ____</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Costa Rican by birth
2 Costa Rican by naturalization
3 Not a Costa Rican citizen
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="CR00A006 CR00A007 CR00A010 CR00A011 CR00A072 CR00A073 CR00A400 CR00A401 CR00A402 CR00A403 CR00A404 CR00A405 CR00A406 CR00A407 CR00A408 CR00A409 CR00A412 CR00A413 CR00A435 CR00A436"><span class="h3">First block</span><br /><br /><span class="h3">For all persons</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CR00A406 CR00A407"><span class="em">Question 5: Nationality</span><br /><br />This question refers to the legal condition of national or foreign that each person has with respect to the country in which the census is being given and permits determining the amount of foreigners residents in the country.<br /><br />[To the right of the text is a form.]<br /><br />They are Costa Rican by birth:<br /><br />a. Children of Costa Rican mother and father, born in the country or away from it, but duly registered.<br /><br />[Below the text is a picture of a baby and two parents.]<br /><br />b. Children of foreign mother and father but born in Costa Rica and registered as Costa Rican<br /><br />[Below the text is a picture of a baby and two parents.]<br /><br />Costa Ricans by naturalization are those who having been born abroad, acquire nationality by virtue of what the Costa Rican laws establish, once naturalization is dealt with and awarded by the Civil Registry of our country.<br /><br />They are of another nationality, those who do not have Costa Rican nationality neither by birth nor naturalization, [whether] they are legally or illegally in the country. In this case the nationality declared by the enumerated person will be registered.<br /><br /><span class="em">Keep In Mind</span><br /><br />If a person refuses to answer, make clear that the information is confidential and will be used in global [aggregate] statistics; it will not be supplied in an individual form to another institution.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the respondent is Costa Rican by birth or naturalization.
Universe
Costa Rica 2000: All persons

concept

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