South African Census 1980

South Africa, 1980

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zaf-dos-census-1980-v1.3

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Department of Statistics (now Statistics South Africa)

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Statistics South Africa

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Oct 18, 2012

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Place of residence 1975 (suburb-town) (PLACE75)

Data file: SA Census 1980_Bophuthatswana_v1_2

Overview

Valid: 1512002

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 8010

Mean: 5164.771

Standard deviation: 2092.794

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

loc_start_pos: 34

loc_end_pos: 40

Width: 7

Range: 0 - 8010

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

9. Usual place of residence: State full residential address. (2) 5 years ago May 1975

Interviewer instructions

2 (e) QUESTION 9 - In the case of a child at boarding school, university or undergoing military training or a living-in dervant his/her home address should be entered, i.e. where the person's family lives.

Question post text

State full residential address. See instructions 2e. If the same as the address at the top of this form, write "HERE".

Description

Definition

This variable records the usual place of residence of the individual household member five years ago (i.e. May 1975).

Universe

Answer this part in respect of every person at midnight between 6 and 7 May 1980. (Only one person per column.)

Source of information

Household member

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