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General Census of Population and Housing (1988) - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1988
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SEN_1988_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Relationship to head (SN1988A_RELATE)

Data file: SEN1988_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 192
End: 193
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="SN88A402">P2. Relationship to head of household________<br /><div class="i1">Write "CM" for the household head [<span class="lang">chef de ménage</span>]<br />For the heads of family units, record the relationship to the household head.<br />For the other members, record the relationship to the head of family unit.</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
00 Household head
01 Spouse
02 Son or daughter, with mother and father
03 Son or daughter, with either mother or father
04 Son or daughter in law
05 Father, Mother
06 Nephew, Niece
07 Brother, Sister
08 Other relative
09 No kinship
10 Additional household head
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="SN88A402">P2. Relationship to head of household<br /><br /><div class="i1">The relationship of members of the family to the head of family unit (CN), and will be written in with the sequential number of the head of family unit. <br />The relationship of the head of family unit will be defined in relation with the household head (CM). <br />The first wife will be recorded as "Wife of 1", the second wife also as "Wife of 1". Wives of a head of family unit who has the sequential number 5 will be recorded as "Wife of 5".<br />The relationship for children refers to the sequential number of their parents.</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">Example: A daughter whose father is the household head, and the mother has sequential number 04 will be recorded as "daughter of 1x4". However, if a boy lives with his mother, whose sequential number is 07, and the father does not live in the household, one will record: "Son on -x7", the hyphen indicating that the father is not resident in the household, and does not appear in the household form.</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">Similarly, if a man with sequential number 8 has a daughter who lives in the household but whose mother is not a resident, one should write: :"Daughter of 8x-".</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
The variable indicates the person's relationship to the household head.
Universe
Senegal 1988: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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