General Population Census VI and Housing IV - IPUMS Subset

Uruguay, 1985

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URY_1985_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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General Office of Statistics and Censuses, IPUMS

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Age (UY1985A_AGE)

Data file: URY1985_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 171

End: 173

Width: 3

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="UY85A403">4. How old are you?<br /><br /><div class="i1">Write down the age in complete years. For those younger than 1, write "0"</div><br /><div class="i2">Years _ _ _</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
000	Less than 1 year
001	1
002	2
003	3
004	4
005	5
006	6
007	7
008	8
009	9
010	10
011	11
012	12
013	13
014	14
015	15
016	16
017	17
018	18
019	19
020	20
021	21
022	22
023	23
024	24
025	25
026	26
027	27
028	28
029	29
030	30
031	31
032	32
033	33
034	34
035	35
036	36
037	37
038	38
039	39
040	40
041	41
042	42
043	43
044	44
045	45
046	46
047	47
048	48
049	49
050	50
051	51
052	52
053	53
054	54
055	55
056	56
057	57
058	58
059	59
060	60
061	61
062	62
063	63
064	64
065	65
066	66
067	67
068	68
069	69
070	70
071	71
072	72
073	73
074	74
075	75
076	76
077	77
078	78
079	79
080	80
081	81
082	82
083	83
084	84
085	85
086	86
087	87
088	88
089	89
090	90
091	91
092	92
093	93
094	94
095	95
096	96
097	97
098	98
099	99
100	100+

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="UY85A400 UY85A401 UY85A402 UY85A403 UY85A404 UY85A405 UY85A406 UY85A407 UY85A408 UY85A409 UY85A410 UY85A411 UY85A412 UY85A413"><span class="h3">I -- General characteristics -- all persons</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="UY85A403">For question No. 4 "How old are you?", you should write down the age in completed years at zero hour of the "Day of the Census".<br /><br />[An example has been omitted]<br /><br />It is very important to write down the exact age of each person, so you should be very careful with this respect and not omit it in any case.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's age (in completed years).

Universe

Uruguay 1985: All persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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