Octavo Censo Nacional de Población y Cuarto de Vivienda de Panamá 1980 - IPUMS Subset

Panama, 1980

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PAN_1980_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

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Contraloria General de la Republica, Direccion de Estadistica y Censo, Minnesota Population Center

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Age (PA1980A_0404)

Data file: PAN1980-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 174

End: 175

Width: 2

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

4. How old are you?

Write the age in years. If under 1 year of age, mark the appropriate box. If the age is unknown, ask the person to make an approximate guess.

Person 01

Years _ _

Persons 02 and 03

Years _ _
[] 00 Under 1 year

Categories

Value	Category
0	Under 1 year of age
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9
10	10
11	11
12	12
13	13
14	14
15	15
16	16
17	17
18	18
19	19
20	20
21	21
22	22
23	23
24	24
25	25
26	26
27	27
28	28
29	29
30	30
31	31
32	32
33	33
34	34
35	35
36	36
37	37
38	38
39	39
40	40
41	41
42	42
43	43
44	44
45	45
46	46
47	47
48	48
49	49
50	50
51	51
52	52
53	53
54	54
55	55
56	56
57	57
58	58
59	59
60	60
61	61
62	62
63	63
64	64
65	65
66	66
67	67
68	68
69	69
70	70
71	71
72	72
73	73
74	74
75	75
76	76
77	77
78	78
79	79
80	80
81	81
82	82
83	83
84	84
85	85
86	86
87	87
88	88
89	89
90	90
91	91
92	92
93	93
94	94
95	95
96	96
97	97
98	98+

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

Question 4 How old are you?

Write down in the corresponding spaces, the age in completed years of the person on the last birthday. For those less than one year old, mark the corresponding box.

[p. 70]

If there is some doubt in the person when answering the question, try to get the exact age. One resource is the Personal Identity Card.
When a person does not know his/her age, as occasionally happens among persons of advanced age, try to help by making references to historical events or simple local happenings. The age of a person also can be estimated with enough precision, relating the age of a woman when she had a baby to the current age of that child; or how old when getting married or consensually united and remembering how many years that they have been married or consensually united.
If after having exhausted all resources it is not possible to get or estimate the age of the person, write "not known".

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's age.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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