Census 2001 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2001

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ZAF_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Mother's person number in household (ZA2001A_MOTHLOC)

Data file: ZAF2001_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 262

End: 263

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar v="ZA01A041 ZA01A401 ZA01A402 ZA01A403 ZA01A404 ZA01A405 ZA01A406 ZA01A407 ZA01A408 ZA01A409 ZA01A410 ZA01A411 ZA01A412 ZA01A413 ZA01A414 ZA01A415 ZA01A416 ZA01A417 ZA01A418 ZA01A419 ZA01A420 ZA01A421 ZA01A422 ZA01A423 ZA01A424 ZA01A425 ZA01A426 ZA01A427 ZA01A428 ZA01A429 ZA01A430 ZA01A431 ZA01A432 ZA01A433 ZA01A434 ZA01A435 ZA01A436 ZA01A437 ZA01A438 ZA01A439 ZA01A476 ZA01A477 ZA01A478 ZA01A479 ZA01A480 ZA01A481 ZA01A482 ZA01A483 ZA01A485"><span class="h1">Section A: Information for persons in the household -- ask of everyone</span><br />[Section A of this form, each question has 10 answer rows for writing individual answers for up to 10 individuals in the household. Only the first is shown here, which is exactly the same as the other nine.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="ZA01A434 ZA01A435">Mother alive<br /><div class="i1">P-14. Is (the person's) own biological mother still alive? Dot the appropriate box.</div><br /><div class="i2">[] Y = Yes<br />[] N = No<br />[] D = Do not know</div><br /><div class="i1">P-14a. _ _ (Person no.) If yes, who in this household is (the person's) mother? For</div><br /><div class="i2">example, if the mother is the person listed in row 2, write [0] [2]. If the mother<br />does not live in this household, write [9] [9] in the appropriate boxes.</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
01	1
02	2
03	3
04	4
05	5
06	6
07	7
08	8
09	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
26	26
32	32
36	36
39	39
40	40
58	58
97	Mother does not live in household
98	Unknown
99	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

<svar a="all" v="ZA01A434 ZA01A435"><span class="em">Question P-14 -- Mother alive</span><br /><br />Question 14 has two parts, P-14 and P-14a. Everyone answers the first part. Those who answer "Yes" must answer the second part as well.<br /><br /><span class="em">P-14 "Is (the person's) own biological mother still alive?</span><br /><br /> Biological mother means not a stepmother, or mother by adoption.<br /><br /> Dot one alternative:<br /><br /><div class="i1">Y = Yes<br />N = No<br />D = Don't know</div><br /><br /> Answer "don't know" only if nobody in the household can help you with the correct answer.<br /><br /> If "No" or "Don't know" skip P-14a and go to P-15.<br /><br /> If "Yes" go to Question P-14a.<br /><br /><span class="em">P-14a "Who in this household is (the person's) mother?"</span><br /><br />If the person's mother is a member of this household, give the row number of the mother in the boxes. For example, if the person's mother is the household head, write "01". Or maybe the person's mother has been listed in row 14 on questionnaire 2, so you will write "14".<br /><br />If the person's mother does not live in the same household write "99".<br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the individual person number of the mother of the person answering the question.

Universe

South Africa 2001: All persons for whom it is known that the mother is alive [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Constructed Family Interrelationship Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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