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Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2006
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LSO_2006_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
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Residency status (LS2006A_STATUS)

Data file: LSO2006_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 234
End: 234
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Section B. List of household members </span></p>

<p>11. What is (the respondent's) residential status? </p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Present <br />[] 2 Visitor <br />[] 3 Member elsewhere in Lesotho <br />[] 4 Member in Republic of South Africa <br />[] 5 Outside Lesotho and Republic of South Africa</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Present
2 Visitor
3 Elsewhere in Lesotho
4 Member in South Africa
5 Outside Lesotho and South Africa
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="h2">Part B of the questionnaire</span>
<br />For all persons</p>

<p>80. Column 11: What is (name's) current residential status?</p>
<div class="i1">Members of the household and visitors are present if they spent the reference night in the household. This includes members who ought to have slept in the household and were away on night duty such as nurses, night watchmen, or the like or were at a wake.<br />Absent members are those who did not spend the night in the household, these are usual members who were elsewhere in Lesotho, in the RSA or outside Lesotho and RSA.<br />For a member of the household please refer to paragraph 66.<br />Please code according to list.</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's residency status.
Universe
Lesotho 2006: All persons

concept

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