Population Housing and Establishments Census 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2006

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Reference ID

EGY_2006_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

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Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

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Dec 20, 2012

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Place of birth: urban/rural (EG2006A_0423)

Data file: EGY2006-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 179

End: 179

Width: 1

Range: -

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Questions and instructions

Literal question

Place of birth: urban/rural

Categories

Value	Category
1	Urban
2	Rural
8	Unknown
9	NIU (not in universe)

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

Table 1: Household characteristics

18. Place of birth
It consists of 3 columns as follows:

First column: Write the verbal response on the line below the 2 squares according to town / urban district (qism) / rural district (markaz) where the member was born; the squares are left blank for coding by the Information Technology sector.

Second column: Write the verbal response on the line below the 3 squares according to the governorate of birth (inside Egypt) or the name of the country (outside Egypt) where the member was born; the squares are left blank for coding by the Information Technology sector.

Third/Last column: Specify the place of birth in the one square provided. Mark code (1) if the place was urban or code (2) if it was rural. Do not write the verbal response.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person was born in urban or rural area.

Universe

All persons except visitors

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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