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Nicaragua 1971 — source variable NI1971A_BPLDEP — Department or country of birth

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7. Place of birth

In what municipality were you born? If born in Nicaragua write the names of the municipality and department. If born abroad, write the name of the country.

____ Municipality
____ Department or country

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Geographic characteristics
Questions related to geographical characteristics (place of birth, year of arrival to Nicaragua of the foreign-born population, current usual place of residence,

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place of usual residence in April of 1966) are presented in order to study the internal and international migration of the population. The total number of migrants, the direction and tendency of the movements, as well as the principal characteristics of this population are investigated.

Question #7: Place of birth

a. How to ask the question:
In which municipality was the person born?

If the person was born in Nicaragua, the name of the department to which the municipality corresponds is requested.

If the person was born abroad, the name of the country is requested.

b. How to record the information:
If the enumerated person was born in Nicaragua, the following information is recorded in order:

1) The name of the municipality where born; and
2) The name of the department to which the municipality corresponds.

If the person was born abroad, the name of the birth country is recorded.

c. Examples:

[These instructions refer to a graph of question 7 on the census form]

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Nicaragua 1995 — source variable NI1995A_BPLDEPT — Department of birth

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V. Persons in the dwelling
For all persons
[Questions 1-4 were asked of all persons]

4. In what municipality was the person born?

[] 1 Here, in this municipality

Elsewhere in Nicaragua?
Municipality: ____
Department: ____

In another country?
Country: ____
Year of arrival in Nicaragua: ____

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Question 4: Place of birth
For the purpose of the census, we consider the place of birth of the person as the municipality of the habitual residence of the person's mother at the time of birth, even if the delivery occurred in another municipality distinct from the one of the mother's habitual residence, because of medical care or other accidental reasons. If for the census you do not indicate the birth of the child in the place of the mother's residence, then we will have a false result for migrations. Therefore, you should be very careful with this question.

You will ask, "In which municipality of the country were you born?" But explaining that you want to know in which municipality the person started to grow up.

If the person was born in the same municipality where you are conducting the interview, you will mark the box that corresponds to Category 1 (Here, in this municipality) with an "X" and you will leave the rest blank.

If the person was born in another municipality, you will write the name of the municipality. For those who were born in another country, you should be careful to write the complete name of the country of origin clearly and at the same time, write the year of arrival in Nicaragua when the person intended to stay here. Leave the boxes to the right blank; they are for office use.

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Nicaragua 2005 — source variable NI2005A_BPLDEPT — Department of birth

No questionnaire text is available for this sample.

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