Description

BPLCI indicates the person's department of birth within Côte d’Ivoire.

Comparability — General

BPLCI is comparable across all available sample years. However, users should be aware that this variable does not take into account boundary changes between the sample years. Departments are the second level administrative divisions of the country. The first administrative level, Regions, were reorganized between the 1988 and 1998 censuses.

For the country of birth of foreign-born persons in the 1998 sample, see BPLCOUNTRY.

Universe

Availability

• Côte d'Ivoire: 1988, 1998