CANADA EN SU OF S POB-1 Place ofBirth ProceduresManual AutomatedCoding Canada SCtaantiasdtaique ..3 POB-1 PlaceofBirth ProceduresManual Preparedby:CensusOperationsDivision Social,Institutionsand LabourStatisticsField TableofContents Page I. IntroductiontothePlaceofBirthVariable 1 II. StandardProcessFlow-SingleResponses 5 III. MisspelledResponses 11 iV. AbbreviatedResponses 17 V. Responsesof"Same"/"Meme","SeePerson1"/"VoirPersonne1"or "SameasPerson1"/"MemequePersonne1" 23 VI. Pseudo-countriesorResponsesofRegionsorContinents 27 VII. MultipleResponses 31 VIII. OtherCategoriesofResponses 37 IX. Appendices 39 AppendixA-RelatedQuestions 41 AppendixB -PlaceofBirthCodeList 45 AppendixC-ListofCommonlyAbbreviatedPlaceofBirthResponses 49 AppendixD-ListofPseudo-countriesandRegionsorContinents 51 1 1 IntroductiontothePlaceofBirthVariable I. IntroductiontothePlaceofBirthVariable ThePlaceofBirthquestionasicsrespondentstoindicatetheirplaceofbirthaccordingto provincial,territorialornationalboundariesinexistenceonCensusDay,May14,1996. ThePlaceofBirthquestionconsistsof12mark-incircles,representingeachofthe Canadianprovincesandterritories,andonewrite-inbox. Respondentsunsureoftheircountryofbirthbecauseofboundarychangesweregiven instructionsintheGuideandReasonsWhytheQuestionsAreAskedtoprintthenameof thenearestcityordistrict. Thus,whilemostoftheresponsesforthisquestionwillbe namesofcountries,someresponseswillbethenamesofcities,towns,statesordistricts. WhencodingPlaceofBirthresponses,youmustcodetheresponsetoaspecific geographicarea. ForaresponsewhichisINSIDECanada,youmustcodetheresponseto thePROVINCEorTERRITORYofbirth(e.g..AlbertanotCalgary,BritishColumbianot Canada). Whereas,foranyrespondentwhoseplaceofbirthisOUTSIDECanada,themost specificCOUIMTRYofbirth(e.g.,ItalynotEurope,MexiconotAcapuico)istobecoded. Note:Thecheckboxresponseswillappearinanabbreviatedformatonthecodingscreens. The1996PlaceofBirthquestionisillustratedbelow. — 13. Wherewasthispersonbom? |13. Markorspecifyorteresponseonly,accordingto BominCanacU1 presentboundaries. 01ONfld. 07OMan. O O 02 P:E.I. 08 Sask. O O 03 N-S. 09 Alia. O O 04 N.B. 10 B.C. OSOQue. 11OYuicon 06OOnt- 12ONW.T. BomoutsideCanada Country-Specify 13 . PlaceofBirthProceduresManual TheinstructionsprovidedintheGuideandReasonsWhytheQuestionsAreAskedtoassist therespondentinansweringthePlaceofBirthquestionareshownbelow. Question13tellsustheprovinceorterritoryinCanada,ortheforeigncountry wherepeoplewereborn. Thisinformationtellsusaboutpopulationmovements withinCanada,andbetweenCanadaandothercountries. QUESTION13-PlaceofBirth ForpersonsborninNewfoundlandorLabradorbeforethatprovincejoined Confederationin1949,markNfld. ForpersonsborninanareaofCanadawhichwaspartoftheNorthwestTerritories atthetimeoftheirbirth,butwhichisnowpartofaprovince,marktheplaceof birthaccordingtothecurrentprovincialboundaries. ForpersonsborninanyofthesixcountriesofNorthernIreland,printUnited Kingdom. ForpersonsborninoneoftheothercountiesoftheRepublicofIreland, printEire. ForpersonsbornintheformerU.S.S.R.,theformerYugoslavia,ortheformer Czechoslovakia,printthenameoftheindependentcountryorrepublic,according totheboundariesinexistenceonCensusDay-May14,1996. Forpersonswhoarenotsureoftheircountryofbirthbecauseofboundary changessincethetimeoftheirbirth,printthenameofthenearestcity,stateor provinceintheboxprovided. Approximately250codeswillbeusedtocoderesponsestothePlaceofBirthquestion. Thereare12codesrepresentingeachoftheCanadianprovincesandterritories. The remainingcodesrepresentcountriesoutsideCanada. Therearesevenbasiccategoriesofresponseswhichmaybeencounteredinmanually codingthePlaceofBirthvariable: 1 singleresponses; 2. misspelledresponses; 3. abbreviatedresponses; 4. responsesof"Same"/"Meme","SeePerson1"/"VoirPersonne1"or"Sameas Person1"/"MemequePersonne1"; 5. pseudo-countriesorresponsesofregionsorcontinents; 6. multipleresponses; 7. othercategoriesofresponses. ^ IntroductiontothePlaceofBirthVariable CodingofPlaceofBirthresponsesisdonewiththehelpofthePlaceofBirthCodeList,the ReferenceCodeBookaswellastheresponsesprovidedforother1996Censuscultural andmobilityquestions(AppendixA).Instructionstoresolvethesevenbasiccategoriesof responsesaredescribedonpages5to37. However,insomecases,theAutomated CodingbyTextRecognition(ACTR)system,anautomatedcomputersystemwhichusesa listofstandardreferencephrasesandcodestomatchagainstthewrite-inresponse,will returnanumberofphrasesinanefforttohelpyoutoresolvetheresponse. Inthese cases,theprocedurestofollowaredescribedbelow. ProcedurestofollowwhenACTRphrasesarereturned CONDITION ACTION Step1 IFaphraseisreturnedbyACTRTHEN comparetheresponsetobecoded, startingwiththefirstphrase,todetermine ifitisasuitablematch. Step2 IFamatchisfoundTHEN (i) selectthevalidcode; (ii) validatethecode; (iii) verifythatthecodedescriptionatthe bottomofthescreenmatchesthe response. (a) IFthecodedescriptionmatches committhecode. theresponseTHEN (b) IFthecodedescriptiondoesnot (i) determineifthenextphrasereturned matchtheresponseTHEN byACTRcanbeselected; (ii) REPEATStep2untilthelistofACTR phrasesisexhausted. Step3 IFnomatchisfoundinthelistACTRhas (i) followtheproceduresforresolving returnedorthemessage"ACTRlistmay thesevencategoriesofresponsesas beoutdated"appearsTHEN outlinedonpages5to37; (ii) type,validateandcommitthecodeor REFERTOTHENEXTLEVELOF CODING. IFyouareindoubtaboutthecorrectcodetoassign,REFERTHERESPONSETOTHENEXT LEVELOFCODING. a