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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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Sex (UY1985A_SEX)

Data file: URY1985_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 170
End: 170
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="UY85A402">3. Are you a man or woman?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Man<br />[] 2 Woman</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="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="UY85A402">For question no. 3, "Are you man or woman?", you should mark the box corresponding to the sex of the enumerated person.<br /><br />Never think that by having written the name of a person, it is not necessary to mark "Man" or "Woman". Always register if man or woman, or male or female, in the case of children and little babies.<br /><br />Do not be guided by the name of a person: always ask the question as it is written in the Census document.<br /><br />[An example has been omitted]<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's sex.
Universe
Uruguay 1985: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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