X Censo General de Población y Vivienda 1971 - IPUMS Subset

Venezuela, RB, 1971

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Reference ID

VEN_1971_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Dirección General de Estadística y Censos Nacionales, Ministerio de Fomento, Minnesota Population Center

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Age (VE1971A_0404)

Data file: VEN1971-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 140

End: 141

Width: 2

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

5. - 6. Date of birth or age in years

____ Day
____ Month
____ Year

____ Years
[] 00 Under 1 year

Categories

Value	Category
0	0
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
99	99+

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

Columns 5 and 6. Date of birth or age.

Ask for the date on which the person was born. Write down the day, month, and year of birth in the space provided. If the exact date is not known, request that the year, approximate date, or estimated age be provided.

If the person gives the date of birth, do not ask the age. Try to receive the person's exact date of birth.

For children younger than one year of age, write down 00 in column 6. For those 100 years of age and older, write down 99 in column 6.

Always convert the date of birth into years completed according to the attached table [p. 53]. Other questions in the questionnaire require this piece of information.

5.34. How to use the age conversion table

In order to convert a date of birth to the correct age, look for the year in the first column and according to the month found in the second or third column the number of years is the age. The number obtained from the table is written down in column 6.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the age of the individual.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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