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HILDA Online Data Dictionary Release 23
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Variable
oancob
Label
History: Country of birth
Population
All
Subject Area
BACKGROUND - Ancestry
Survey Wave
15
Data File
Responding Person File
Frequency
[1101] Australia
13877
[2100] United Kingdom
961
[1201] New Zealand
399
[7103] India
182
[5204] Philippines
145
[6101] China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
142
[9225] South Africa
113
[5105] Vietnam
101
[2304] Germany
93
[2308] Netherlands
90
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
1303
Solomon Islands
1402
Kiribati
1407
Palau
1502
Fiji
1505
Samoa
1599
Polynesia (excludes Hawaii), nec
1601
Adelie Land (France)
1602
Argentinian Antarctic Territory
1603
Australian Antarctic Territory
2301
Austria
2307
Monaco
2401
Denmark
2402
Faroe Islands
2405
Iceland
2407
Sweden
3105
Malta
3106
Portugal
3108
Spain
3201
Albania
3204
Croatia
3205
Cyprus
3302
Czech Republic
3304
Hungary
3305
Latvia
3308
Russian Federation
3312
Ukraine
4103
Libya
4203
Iran
4213
Saudi Arabia
4215
Turkey
5104
Thailand
6102
Hong Kong (SAR of China)
6104
Mongolia
6203
Korea, Republic of (South)
7103
India
7105
Nepal
7106
Pakistan
7201
Afghanistan
7204
Georgia
7207
Tajikistan
8101
Bermuda
8201
Argentina
8305
Honduras
8308
Panama
8405
Barbados
8411
Dominican Republic
8413
Guadeloupe
8423
St Lucia
8424
St Vincent and the Grenadines
8426
Turks and Caicos Islands
8428
Virgin Islands, United States
9103
Cameroon
9122
Mauritania
9123
Niger
9126
Senegal
9202
Botswana
9203
Burundi
9213
Malawi
9215
Mayotte
9217
Namibia
9227
Tanzania
9228
Uganda
9299
Southern and East Africa
912
Former USSR, nfd
1101
Australia
1102
Norfolk Island
1403
Marshall Islands
1406
Northern Mariana Islands
1501
Cook Islands
1506
Samoa, American
1507
Tokelau
1605
Chilean Antarctic Territory
1606
Queen Maud Land (Norway)
2306
Luxembourg
2311
Switzerland
2403
Finland
2406
Norway
3102
Gibraltar
3103
Holy See
3206
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
3207
Greece
3211
Romania
3214
Montenegro
3215
Serbia
3301
Belarus
3306
Lithuania
3307
Poland
3311
Slovakia
4101
Algeria
4102
Egypt
4199
North Africa
4204
Iraq
4206
Jordan
4207
Kuwait
4212
Qatar
5101
Burma (Myanmar)
5105
Vietnam
5202
Indonesia
5203
Malaysia
5204
Philippines
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