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General Census of Population and Housing 1976 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1976
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CMR_1976_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Statistique et de la Compatabilité Nationale, Minnesota Population Center
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Month of birth (CM1976A_0406)

Data file: CMR1976-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 147
End: 148
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Date of Birth
7) Mark the number of the month of birth (01 to 12). If the person doesn't know their birth month, mark a line.

Month number _ _

8) Mark the year of birth. If the person doesn't know his month of birth, mark a line in column 8 and mark the estimated age in column 9.

Year _ _ _ _
Categories
Value Category
1 January
2 February
3 March
4 April
5 May
6 June
7 July
8 August
9 September
10 October
11 November
12 December
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
a) Columns 1 to 16:

Fill out for each person.

First take inventory of all the people to mark by filling out columns 1 to 6 for each person. Next ask the other individual questions (columns 7 to 25), filling out line by line.




Column 7 and 8: Date of birth:

Mark the month of birth in numbers in column 7 and the year of birth in numbers in the column 8.

[Month numbers and examples omitted]

If someone doesn't know their month of birth, mark a line in column 7 and mark their year of birth in column 8.

If someone doesn't know either their month of birth or their year of birth, mark a line in column 7 and 8 and go on to column 9

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the month of birth.
Universe
All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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