1990 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Trinidad and Tobago, 1980

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TTO_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Statistical Office, IPUMS

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County of residence five years ago (TT1990A_CNTY5YR)

Data file: TTO1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 166

End: 167

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h2">Section 2. Migration--For all persons</span></p>

<p>10. Address five years ago
<br />What was [the respondent] address five (5) years ago?</p>
<div class="i1">____ Town/Village<br />____ Ward/County</div>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Port of Spain
02	San Fernando borough
03	Arima borough
13	County of St. George
14	County of Caroni
15	County of Nariva-Mayaro
16	St. Andrew-St.David
17	County of Victoria
38	County of St. Patrick
39	Tobago
98	Unknown
99	NIU (not in universe)

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">Section 2 Migration</span></p>

<p>Questions 9, 10
<br /> </p>
<div class="i1">Where these questions do not apply i.e. in cases where the individuals are less than one [1] year and less than five [5] years respectively, put not applicable [N.A.] in the space of the address.</div>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person’s county of residence five years ago.

Universe

Trinidad and Tobago 1990: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Migration: Global Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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