These ethnographic censuses are all in Spanish, and contain some words are will be translated below.Ý The 1945, 1960 and 1970 censuses are similar in structure.Ý The printed form changed after 1945.Ý Computer codes are identical, although the number of questions asked was expanded.Ý Although there is an original 11x17î ìI.N.E.A.H. Censo General 1945î format in which data were collected, these data were transcribed to the standardized format used in 1960 and 1970.Ý Hence we will describe here that 8.5x14î standardized format.Ý That format comes in two parts, Demographic data on people and the Household inventory data.Ý
[paragraph on interviewers, data collection, numbers
censused, etc. ]
TZ45INDV.DAT sample data
Questions on household membership Ö(explain ìextendedî
etc.)
Ý
Part I: Demographic data
1945: left off characteristics of individual persons
Name
Sex
Age
Kinship Relationship
Marriage Status
Birthplace
Occupation: Primary
Occupation: Secondary
Part II: Household Inventories
1945: computer coding left off data on fruit trees,
plants, and animals;
tortilladora, bicycle, DDT, tractor (censused by not
coded for analysis)
1945-70: 21 variables pertaining to the house, plus
level of living score
1945 10 point scale 1960 20 point scale 1970 20 point
scale
(1980 30 point scale 1990 40 point scale)
from 1980:
Ý[codes to be appended]