Description

BPL1_CL indicates the person's province of birth in Chile. The data for 1982-2017 are coded into the modern geographic classification of provinces. Birthplace province codes for BPL1_CL are compatible with codes for GEO1_CL.

See BPL1ALT_CL for a comparable variable that codes the 1960 and 1970 samples into the pre-1974 geographic classification of provinces GEO1ALT_CL.

Click on the Source Variables tab for information on place of residence for each sample year. Source variables may contain more geographic unit detail but are not suitable for cross-temporal comparison.

Comparability — General

The data are comparable across samples.

Where officially defined provinces have populations under 20,000, they have been regionalized (combined) with neighboring provinces.

The following units are combined for confidentiality reasons:

• Parinacota is combined with Arica.
• Capitan Prat and General Carrera are combined with Aisén.
• Palena is combined with Chiloé.
• Antartica Chilena and Tierra del Fuego are combined with Magallanes.
• Isla de Pascua is combined with Valparaíso.

In 1974, the Chilean government decentralized the administrative regions of its country, and many province boundary and names were changed. It was not possible to recode the less-detailed pre-1970 system into the more-detailed modern system.

For the country of birth of international migrants, see BPLCOUNTRY (Country of birth).

Universe

Availability

• Chile: 1982, 1992, 2002, 2017