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Variable
aancob
Label
A1 Country of birth
Form
NPQ
Question No.
A1
Questionnaire Text
In which country were you born?
NPQ Page No.
2
Population
All
Subject Area
BACKGROUND - Ancestry
Survey Wave
1
Data File
Responding Person File
Frequency
[1101] Australia
10412
[2100] United Kingdom
1010
[1201] New Zealand
312
[3104] Italy
138
[5105] Vietnam
129
[2304] Germany
116
[5204] Philippines
110
[2308] Netherlands
102
[6101] China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
84
[9225] South Africa
79
Notes
Combined answer from first interview for continuing persons and answer from NPQ for new persons. See Selected Standard Classifications report (.pdf) for coding. Reference: ABS (1998) Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC), 1998 (ABS Cat. No. 1269.0)
Variable Occurrence
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
W16
W17
W18
W19
W20
W21
W22
W23
Value
Label
912
Former USSR, nfd
913
Former Yugoslavia, nfd
1101
Australia
1102
Norfolk Island
1199
Australian External Territories, nec
1201
New Zealand
1301
New Caledonia
1302
Papua New Guinea
1303
Solomon Islands
1304
Vanuatu
1401
Guam
1402
Kiribati
1403
Marshall Islands
1404
Micronesia, Federated States of
1405
Nauru
1406
Northern Mariana Islands
1407
Palau
1501
Cook Islands
1502
Fiji
1503
French Polynesia
1504
Niue
1505
Samoa
1506
Samoa, American
1507
Tokelau
1508
Tonga
1511
Tuvalu
1512
Wallis and Futuna
1599
Polynesia (excludes Hawaii), nec
1601
Adelie Land (France)
1602
Argentinian Antarctic Territory
1603
Australian Antarctic Territory
1604
British Antarctic Territory
1605
Chilean Antarctic Territory
1606
Queen Maud Land (Norway)
1607
Ross Dependency (New Zealand)
2100
United Kingdom
2201
Ireland
2301
Austria
2302
Belgium
2303
France
2304
Germany
2305
Liechtenstein
2306
Luxembourg
2307
Monaco
2308
Netherlands
2311
Switzerland
2401
Denmark
2402
Faroe Islands
2403
Finland
2404
Greenland
2405
Iceland
2406
Norway
2407
Sweden
3101
Andorra
3102
Gibraltar
3103
Holy See
3104
Italy
3105
Malta
3106
Portugal
3107
San Marino
3108
Spain
3201
Albania
3202
Bosnia and Herzegovina
3203
Bulgaria
3204
Croatia
3205
Cyprus
3206
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
3207
Greece
3208
Moldova
3211
Romania
3212
Slovenia
3213
Yugoslavia Federal Republic of
3214
Montenegro
3215
Serbia
3301
Belarus
3302
Czech Republic
3303
Estonia
3304
Hungary
3305
Latvia
3306
Lithuania
3307
Poland
3308
Russian Federation
3311
Slovakia
3312
Ukraine
4101
Algeria
4102
Egypt
4103
Libya
4104
Morocco
4105
Sudan
4106
Tunisia
4107
Western Sahara
4199
North Africa
4201
Bahrain
4202
Gaza Strip and West Bank
4203
Iran
4204
Iraq
4205
Israel
4206
Jordan
4207
Kuwait
4208
Lebanon
1
2
3
Missing data values
-1
Not asked
-2
Not applicable
-3
Dont know
-4
Refused/Not stated
-5
Multiple response SCQ
-6
Implausible value
-7
Not able to be determined
-8
No SCQ
-9
Non-responding household
-10
Non-responding person