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Variable
ifmmcobn
Label
NPQ:BB9b Mother's Country of Birth
Form
NPQ
Question No.
NPQ BB9b
Questionnaire Text
And your mother? In which country was she born?
NPQ Page No.
4
Population
All
Subject Area
BACKGROUND - Family Background
Survey Wave
9
Data File
Responding Person File
Frequency
[1101] Australia
608
[2100] United Kingdom
67
[1201] New Zealand
16
[5204] Philippines
14
[2304] Germany
12
[3104] Italy
10
[6101] China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
8
[4208] Lebanon
7
[5105] Vietnam
6
[5203] Malaysia
6
Notes
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
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
W16
W17
W18
W19
W20
W21
W22
W23
Value
Label
1199
Australian External Territories, nec
1302
Papua New Guinea
1401
Guam
1405
Nauru
1504
Niue
1604
British Antarctic Territory
2100
United Kingdom
2201
Ireland
2303
France
2404
Greenland
3101
Andorra
3107
San Marino
3202
Bosnia and Herzegovina
3203
Bulgaria
3208
Moldova
3212
Slovenia
3303
Estonia
4104
Morocco
4105
Sudan
4106
Tunisia
4202
Gaza Strip and West Bank
4217
Yemen
5102
Cambodia
5103
Laos
6201
Japan
6202
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (North)
7102
Bhutan
7107
Sri Lanka
7202
Armenia
8102
Canada
8203
Brazil
8205
Colombia
8208
French Guiana
8213
Peru
8215
Uruguay
8301
Belize
8302
Costa Rica
8303
El Salvador
8306
Mexico
8307
Nicaragua
8401
Anguilla
8403
Aruba
8406
Cayman Islands
8408
Dominica
8414
Haiti
8418
Netherlands Antilles
8427
Virgin Islands, British
9105
Central African Republic
9106
Chad
9107
Congo
9112
Equatorial Guinea
9117
Guinea-Bissau
9118
Liberia
9121
Mali
9125
Sao Tome and Principe
9206
Eritrea
9207
Ethiopia
9221
Rwanda
9231
Zambia
9999
Dont know
913
Former Yugoslavia, nfd
1201
New Zealand
1301
New Caledonia
1304
Vanuatu
1404
Micronesia, Federated States of
1503
French Polynesia
1508
Tonga
1511
Tuvalu
1512
Wallis and Futuna
1607
Ross Dependency (New Zealand)
2302
Belgium
2304
Germany
2305
Liechtenstein
2308
Netherlands
3104
Italy
3213
Yugoslavia Federal Republic of
4107
Western Sahara
4201
Bahrain
4205
Israel
4208
Lebanon
4211
Oman
4214
Syria
4216
United Arab Emirates
5201
Brunei Darussalam
5206
East Timor
6101
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
6105
Taiwan
7101
Bangladesh
7203
Azerbaijan
8204
Chile
8206
Ecuador
8211
Guyana
8212
Paraguay
8214
Suriname
8407
Cuba
8412
Grenada
8415
Jamaica
8416
Martinique
8421
Puerto Rico
8422
St Kitts and Nevis
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