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XIV National Population and III Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1973
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COL_1973_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS
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Urban-rural (CO1973A_URBAN)

Data file: COL1973_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 182
End: 182
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CO73A001 CO73A002 CO73A005 CO73A006 CO73A007 CO73A008 CO73A009 CO73A010 CO73A011">1 Department, Administration, Precinct ____<br />2 Municipality ____<br />3 Administrative unit<br /><div class="i1">a. Name of town ____<br />b. Type or class of town</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Head town<br />[] 2 Administrative center<br />[] 3 Small village<br />[] 4 Other</div><br />4 Zone<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Urban<br />[] 2 Rural</div><br />5 Sector number ____<br />6 Section number ____<br />7 Block number ____<br />8 Enumeration area ____<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Urban
2 Rural
9 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
<svar a="all" v="CO73A001 CO73A002 CO73A005 CO73A006 CO73A007 CO73A008 CO73A009 CO73A010 CO73A011"><span class="h2">Section I. Geographic location</span><br /><br />[Below the text is a form.]<br /><br />To fill out this Section you should take the information from the "Identification of the area of enumeration card" Form DANE CP 10-89 for urban areas and Form DANE CP 10-91 for Rural Areas; that you will find in your materials bag. Register them in all the Forms you fill out.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of area (urban or rural).
Universe
Colombia 1973: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Geography: A-E Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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