General Census of Population and Housing (1988) - IPUMS Subset
Senegal, 1988
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Reference ID
SEN_1988_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Census Bureau, IPUMS
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- SEN1988_PHC-H-H.dat
- SEN1988_PHC-P-H.dat
Ethnic group or nationality (SN1988A_ETHNIC1)
Data file: SEN1988_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
196
End:
197
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar a="all" v="SN88A409 SN88A429">P8. Ethnicity or nationality ________<br /><div class="i1">For Senegalese, write the name of the ethnic group<br />For foreigners, write their nationality and skip to P11.</div><br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 01 | Balant |
| 02 | Bambara |
| 03 | Bassari |
| 04 | Coniagui |
| 05 | Diola |
| 06 | Fula |
| 07 | Khassonke |
| 08 | Laobe |
| 09 | Lebu |
| 10 | Malinke |
| 11 | Mandinka |
| 12 | Mancagne |
| 13 | Manjaago |
| 14 | Mauritanian |
| 15 | Peul / Fulbe |
| 16 | Sereer |
| 17 | Soce |
| 18 | Sarakhole, Soninke |
| 19 | Tukuler |
| 20 | Wolof |
| 21 | Other ethnic group (including naturalized) |
| 22 | No ethnic group specified |
| 50 | Gambia |
| 51 | Guinea-Conakry |
| 52 | Guinea-Bissau / Cape Verde |
| 53 | Mali |
| 54 | Mauritania |
| 55 | Burkina-Faso, Niger, Ivory-Coast, Benin, Togo |
| 56 | Liberia, Sierra-Leone, Nigeria, Ghana |
| 57 | Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Chad, Central-African-Republic, Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, Equatorial Guinea |
| 58 | Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt |
| 59 | Other African country |
| 60 | Lebanon, Syria |
| 61 | Other Arab country |
| 62 | France |
| 63 | Other European country |
| 64 | Asia |
| 65 | North-America |
| 66 | Central-America and Caribbean |
| 67 | South-America |
| 68 | Australia |
| 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
<svar a="all" v="SN88A409 SN88A429">P8) Ethnicity or nationality<br /><br /><div class="i1">Ask the following question: "What is your ethnic group?" if the person is Senegalese. Or, "What is your nationality" the person is a foreigner.<br /><br />Record in plain words the ethnic group declared for the Senegalese, just above the coding box, in the empty space left for this.</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">Example: Wolof, Diola, etc.</div><br /><div class="i1">For Senegalese who cannot determine their ethnic group, or for those who became Senegalese by naturalization, record "Other".<br /><br />For foreigners, record the name of the country of origin.<br /><br />Example: Guinea-Conakry, France, etc.</div><br /></svar>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the person's ethnic group (if Senegalese) or nationality (if foreign).
Universe
Senegal 1988: All persons
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |