Place of residence 1 year and 5 years ago outside Canada procedures manual.

24 Pages·1996·0.41 MB·English

by  Statistics Canada. Census Operations Division.

1996 OF CANADA
C E N S U S
92N0076XPE
e.3 MBO-1
PlaceofResidence 1 Yearand 5 Years ago
OutsideCanada
STATISTICS STATISTIOUC
CANADA CANADA
ProceduresManua
LIBRARY
BIBLIOTHtOUE
AutomatedCoding
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MBI-1
PlaceofResidence1Yearand5YearsAgo
OutsideCanada
ProceduresManual
Preparedby: CensusOperationsDivision
Social,InstitutionsandLabourStatisticsField

TableofContents
Page
I. IntroductiontoCodingProceduresforthe"PlaceofResidence1Yearand5Years
Ago-OutsideCanada"Variable 1
II. StandardCodingProcedures 3
A. CodeMatch 4
HI. ProcessingResponsescontainingtheNameoftheCountry 5
IV. ProcessingResponsesContainingDifficulties 9
A. ProcessingMisspelledResponses 9
B. ProcessingMultipleResponses 12
C. ProcessingOtherResponses 15

IntroductiontoCodingProceduresforthe"PlaceofResidence1Yearand5YearsAgo-OutsideCanada"Variable
I. IntroductiontoCodingProceduresforthe"PlaceofResidence1Yearand5
YearsAgo-OutsideCanada"Variable
Inquestion22onthe2BCensusform(longform),respondentsareaskedtomarkthecircle
besidetheresponsethatbestcharacterizestheirplaceofresidence1yearago,i.e.May14,
1995. Respondentswhomarkanswercircle03arerequiredtospecifytheirplaceofresidence
insideCanadabywritinginthenameofthecity,town,village,township,municipalityor
IndianreserveinCanada,andtheprovinceorterritorywheretheylivedonMay14,1995.
RespondentswhostatethattheylivedoutsideCanadaonthatdate(bymarkinganswercircle
05),areaskedtospecifythenameofthecountry.
MOBILITY 25.
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Markonecircleonly. 02 atmrLuoeidnwsvdineerc,rdeivspvaeiastlllaiiantgdytei,hoferfteosIrwnaendnmsithaeinpc,ity,
NttDSThoooooerrtwmovenmnae:sutlnolci,raacarliStgltphe.eaedlArciimltttubyihneeairrscntaiatprMrhaaoeeltnrihmttterairheedaastlne.h,atWunhShpecEeaoldrrfamerbsogomnaeraptrolpoclulniiegt,cyrh,acbSrfilaatoeiatr,ehneseiixrdocaerhtmnhptailfney, 03£)-[tPrCLmSmiruoeuiptonnwsyveiw,inecectci,tnrdipicovfavpewielyi/nnaitl,ltbiealyinevfa,tingdlClytoeiloora,aoffwgnIfryten,eaoIdrwtidneoandanwnsitnharsicnehispitep,yr,,ve
ratherthanVictoria.
LivedoutsideCanada
Spo&fynameofcountry
Frtinr.f.
Inquestion23onthe2BCensusform,respondentsareaskedtomarktheanswercirclebeside
theresponsethatbestcharacterizestheirplaceofresidence5yearsago,i.e.May14,1991.
Respondentsapplythesamerulesasfortheprecedingquestion.
23.WonheMraeyd1i4d,th1i9s9p1e?rsonlive5yearsago,thatis 07£Q)aLidvdordesasttahsensoawme
Markonecircleonly. 08 taLmrouiednwvsdineerc,dreivpsvaeaistllilaitangydte,i,hfoeftreosIrwanendnmsitheainpc,ity,
09(3tLmrouienwvsineec,drivpvieianllialinatdgyCei,afofrnteoaIrwndendnasithaicnipt,y,
NttDSThoooooerrtwmovenmnae:sutlnolci,raacarliStgltphe.eaedlArciimltttubyihneeairrscntaiatprMrhaaoeeltnrimhttteraihreedaastlne.h,atWunhShpecEeaoldrrfamerbsogomnaeraptrolpoclulniiegt,cyrh,acbSrfilaatoeiatr,ehneseiixrdocaerhtmnhptailfney, <CmPSirutponyvei,iccntiicopefwafylnti,fbttviyeiTollllrtoaogIw>eny,ditaonwnrsehsiopl,ve
ratherthanVictoria.
11®ILivedoutsideCanada
12 HSptecihfynonmooofcountry
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PlaceofResidence1Yearand5YearsAgo-InsideCanadaProceduresManual
Theinstructionsprovidedwiththe2Bformtohelprespondentsanswerthesetwoquestions
areshownbelow.
MOBILITY
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tcreannssupsoersta.tiItonisaanldsosoucsieadltsoerivdiecnetsi,fyafnudtucroenntreiebdustefsortohopursoignrg,amesduacdamtiinoins,tered
undertheFiscalArrangementsAct.
Markoneofthefourcirclesprovidedtoindicateeachperson'susualplace
ooafngoreei(stoihndereMndacayeteo.1n4,e1y9e9a1r)afgoorQ(uonesMtaioyn1243,,1e9v9e5n)fifotrhQeupeesrtsioonnw22asanndotfiavtehyoemares
QUESTION22-PlaceofResidenceOneYearAgo
oFrorInpdeirasnornesswerhvoeliinvCedaninaadadiofnfeMreanytc1i4t,y,1t9o9w5n:,village,township,municipality
•mmuanrikcitphaaltitcyirocrleIandnidanprrienstetrhvee,naanmdeofthecity,town,village,township,
•printthenameoftheprovinceorterritoryitisin.
ForpersonswholivedoutsideCanadaonMay14,1995:
•markthatcircleandprintthenameofthecountryaccordingtopresent
boundaries.
QUESTION23-PlaceofResidenceFiveYearsAgo
oFrorInpdeirasnornessewrhvoelIinveCdainnaadadifofnerMeanytc1i4ty,,1t9ow9n1,village,township,municipality
•mmuanrikcitphaaltitcyirocrleIandnidanprrienstetrhvee,naanmdeofthecity,town,village,township,
•printthenameoftheprovinceorterritoryitisin.
ForpersonswholivedoutsideCanadaonMay14,1991
•markthatcircleandprintthenameofthecountryaccordingtopresent
boundaries.
Source:StatisticsCanada,GuideandReasons,p.10,1996Census.
ResponsesforinsideCanadaandoutsideCanadawillbetreatedastwodifferentvariables.
Thismanualdescribestheautomatedcodingproceduresforresponseswithplaceofresidence
outsideCanada,i.e.thelastwrite-inboxineachquestion. ProceduresforinsideCanada
responses(thefirsttwowrite-inboxesineachquestion)arecoveredinthemanualentitled
"PlaceofResidence1Yearand5YearsAgo-InsideCanadaProceduresManual"(MBI-l).
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StandardCodingProcedures
II. StandardCodingProcedures
Asageneralcoder,youareresponsibleforassigningacodetoeachresponseaccordingtothe
instructionsyouaregiven.
Youwillseethatonlyonecategoryofresponseexistwhenmanualcoding"Placeof
Residence1Yearand5YearsAgo-OutsideCanada":
(a) responsescontainingthenameofthecountry.
Withinthiscategoryofresponse,youwillencounterthefollowingdifficulties:
(a) misspelledresponses;
(b) multipleresponses;
(c) otherresponses.
Whenthesystemshowsyouaresponse,youmust:
identifyiftheresponseisthenameofacountryanddeterminewhetheritcontainsany
difficulties;
followtheprocessingstepsforthecategoryofresponseidentified.
Thesestepsaredescribedonpages5through16ofthismanual.
ThesystemwhichhelpsyoucodeusesAutomatedCodingbyTextRecognition(ACTR).
ACTRprovidesyouwithcodingsuggestionsintheformofoneormorephrasesdisplayed
undertheresponse.
YoumustfirstusetheManualCodingBook(MCB)tofindthepropercodesforthe
responsesdisplayedbythesystem.
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PlaceofResidence1Yearand5YearsAgo-InsideCanadaProceduresManual
A. CodeMatch
Whencoding,youmustcarryoutdifferentstepsdependingonthecategoryofresponseyou
arecoding.
However,codematch,thephasewhereacodeisassignedtoaresponse,isidenticalforall
categoriesofresponses.
Alwaysrefertothetablebelowwhenyouarecodematching.
CONDITION ACTION
STEP1 (a) typethevalidcode;
IFthereisacodematch,THEN (b) validatethecode;
(c) verifythatthevalidcodeappearsat
thebottomofthescreen.
STEP2
(i) IFavalidcodeappearsatthebottom committhecode.
ofthescreen,THEN
(ii) IFaninvalidcodeappearsatthe verifywhetherthecodewasinputcorrectly.
bottomofthescreen,THEN Ifanerrorhasbeenmade,correctthecode
andrepeatSTEPS1and2.
STEP3
IFaninvalidcodestillappearsatthe REFERTHERESPONSETOTHE
bottomofthescreen,THEN NEXTLEVELOFCODING.
Onthefollowingpages,youwillfindthestandardcodingprocedureflowchartsand
situation/condition/actiontableswhichwillguideyouthroughthevariousproceduresneeded
whencodingresponses.
a