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Censo Nacional de Población y Viviendas, 1972 - IPUMS Subset

Paraguay, 1972
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PRY_1972_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses (DGEC), IPUMS
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Age (PY1972A_AGE)

Data file: PRY1972_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 179
End: 180
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">IV. Population information</span></p>

<p><span class="h3">A. Personal characteristics</span></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PY72A402">4. How old are you in years completed?<br /><div class="i1">(For those under one year write 00)<br /><br />____ Years old</div><br /></svar>
Categories
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90 90+
99 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
<span class="h3">IV. Information about the Population</span></p>

<p><span class="em">A. Personal characteristics:</span></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PY72A402">4. Age<br />Note with numbers, the age in completed years; for those under one year old, note "00".<br />When the persons have doubts or do not know their age, try or identify it through some document, through reference to other persons in the household, or through the relationship to historical markers: national, local or family. For example: the age that he/she had during the War of Chaco (1932-35); age that he/she had when he/she got married and the number of years of marriage; age the he/she had at the time of birth of his/her eldest child and the child's current age, etc.<br /><br />If resorting to these resources it is impossible to determine the age, note the age given and make the corresponding observation.<br /></svar></p>

<p>4. How old are you?
<br />Write the age in years completed.
<br />For persons less than one year old, write "00"
<br />Years completed _____

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's age.
Universe
Paraguay 1972: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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