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Cameroon 1976
Cameroon 1987
Cameroon 2005
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Cameroon 1976 — source variable CM1976A_PREVRES — Country or arrondisement of previous residence
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15) Previous Residence
Where did you live before you moved to this district?
Mark the name of the district if it is in Cameroon, or the name of the country if it's outside of Cameroon.

Residents (Mark all the people who usually live in the household, whether they are present or absent.

Visitors (mark all the people who do not usually live in the household, but who spent the night before the interview in the household.

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a) Columns 1 to 16:

Fill out for each person.

First take inventory of all the people to mark by filling out columns 1 to 6 for each person. Next ask the other individual questions (columns 7 to 25), filling out line by line.


Column 15: Former residence:

For those who already lived in another district (for the others, you have marked a line).

The location of former residence is the district where the person lived for more than 6 months immediately before having moved to the district where she is now usually living. Mark the name of the district if the former residence is in Cameroon or country if it is outside of Cameroon.


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Cameroon 1987 — source variable CM1987A_PREVRES — Arrondissement or country of previous residence
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[Questions on persons]

[Ask to] residents (list all persons usually residing in the household, whether present or absent) and visitors (list all persons who do not usually reside in the household, but who spent the night preceding the interview in the household.

The whole population
[Questions 1-14 were asked of all persons.]


P11. Place of previous residence ________

Has [the respondent] already lived elsewhere for more than 6 months? If no, put no. If yes, where was [the respondent] living immediately before settling where he/she is now residing? Put the subdivision or the district if it is known, or the name of the locality and the division in brackets, if it is in Cameroon. Put the name of the country if it is abroad.

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c) Filling in pages 2 and 3

1. Columns P1 to P14: The whole population
These columns are to be filled in for all the members of the household: residents and visitors.
Ask the head of the household or the person who answers your questions to give you the names of all present and absent residents (for less than six months) of the household. Classify them under column P2 in the following order:
- Head of household,
- Unmarried children of the head of the household whose mother does not live in the household
- Spouse of the head of the household followed by his or her unmarried children beginning with the oldest.

Where the head of the household is a polygamist, each of his wives must be followed by her unmarried children beginning with the oldest, if they are members of the household.
- Married children of the head of the household or of his wife (wives) followed by their spouses.
- Relatives of the head of me household or of his spouse(s): ascendants (father, mother, grandparents), descendants (grandchildren, great grandchildren) whose parents are not members of the household; collaterals (brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, nephews, cousins)
- Persons not related to the head of the household or to his spouse(s): friends, lodgers, house servants, employees who are members of the household

All these persons who are related or not to the head of the household will be followed if necessary by their spouse (s) and children if the latter are members of the household
If after such classification, the head of the household realizes that he has forgotten a resident member of the household, write down his name after the other resident members.
Once all the residents of the household have been listed, ask if there are visitors in the household. If so, also classify them as in the previous case.
After this inventory of the members, first fill in columns P1 to P5 for all the members and, as from column P6 fill in, line by line, the individual questions for each of them.


Column P11: Place of previous residence
This question concerns all the members of the household, residents and visitors.
The place of previous residence is the subdivision or district in which the counted person had lived (for at least 6 months) before coming to establish in the place of residence during the census, if it is in Cameroon. However, if it is abroad, write the name of the country.
Fill in this column as follows: first of all, ask if the person has lived for more than 6 months in any subdivision or district other than the one in which-he is residing at the time of the census.
If he answers no write 'the person has never lived in any other subdivision or district'
If he answers yes, there will then be two possibilities.
a) Former residence is in Cameroon: write the name of the subdivision or district of the former residence if it is given.
If he does not know the subdivision nor district, write the name of the locality followed by the division, in brackets, in which the locality of the former residence is found.
b) Former residence is out of Cameroon: write in letters the name of the country in which the former residence is found.
Examples:

1) A resident in a household in Yaounde tells you that he was born in Yaounde and has never lived for more than six months out of Yaounde. For him, write no in column P11.
2) A resident in a household in Yaouride tells you that he has been in Yaounde for one year; he lived in Mbalmayo for 8 months before establishing in Yaounde. For him, you should write Mbalmayo in column P11
3) A visitor in a household in Yaounde tells you that he has been in Yaounde for one week, has lived in Mbalmayo for one year and lived in Sangmelima for 8 months before going to Mbalmayo. For him, you should write Sangmelima in column P11


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Cameroon 2005 — source variable CM2005A_PREVARRD — Arrondissement of previous residence
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12. Former place of residence
Where was [person] living before settling in the current place of residence (usual place)? ____ _
See code list
[] Urban
[] Rural

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12. Former place of residence
The former place of residence is the quarter or the district where the surveyed person lived (for at least 6 months) right before moving to the place of residence during the surveying of Cameroon, or the country if they lived abroad.
Where did ____ live before moving to the current, typical place of residence?

-Mark the name (quarter/district or foreign country) on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order number of the surveyed person.

If the answer is Yes, 2 situations may present themselves
a) The former place of residence was in Cameroon,

-Mark the name of the quarter or district corresponding to the former place of residence on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order number of the surveyed person.


Then ask the following question:
Q. Was the town in which you lived in this quarter or in this district the main authority of the quarter or district or of a village?
b) The former place of residence was outside of Cameroon,

-Mark the full name of the country of former residence on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order number of the surveyed person.


Then ask the following question:
Q. The town that you lived in, in this country, was it in an urban location (city) or a rural one (village)?

[Examples omitted]

Then ask him the following question:
Q. Did you live in Mbalmayo or a village in this quarter or in this district?
-Mark in the space provided the code for the former place of residence (1 = urban, 2 = rural)

[Example C omitted]

Then ask him the following question:
Q. Did you live in Sa'a or a village in this quarter or in this district?
-Mark in the space provided the code for the former place of residence (1 = urban, 2 = rural)