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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

General Household Survey, 1972

Variable Details

Variablewhborn
LabelCOUNTRY OF BIRTH
Responses
0 OUTSIDE UK-DK WHERE 0
1 England 18729
2 Scotland 4723
3 Wales 1437
4 Northern Ireland 160
5 Australia 16
6 Australian dependency 1
7 New Zealand 6
8 NewZealand dependency 0
9 Canada 38
10 India 171
11 Indian dependency 0
12 Pakistan 58
13 Ceylon 13
14 Brunei 0
15 Hong Kong 12
16 Malaysia 6
17 Singapore 7
18 Islands: Fiji etc 3
19 the Gambia 1
20 Ghana 6
21 Nigeria 13
22 Sierra Leone 3
23 Kenya 22
24 Malawi 1
25 Tanzania 8
26 Uganda 15
27 Zambia 1
28 Botswana 0
29 Lesotho 0
30 Rhodesia 3
31 Swaziland 0
33 Islands: Ascension etc 6
34 Cyprus 13
35 Gibralter 6
36 Malta 10
37 Barbados 17
38 British Honduras 0
39 Guyana 0
40 Jamaica 84
41 Trinidad&Tobago 14
42 Antigua,Dominica,etc 29
43 W.Indies: other 3
44 Falkland Islands 2
45 Austria 19
46 Belgium 8
47 Denmark 3
48 Finland 0
49 France 19
50 West Germany 22
51 Greece 4
52 Iceland 2
53 Irish Republic 371
54 Italy 27
55 netherlands 13
56 Norway 4
57 Portugal 2
58 Spain 8
59 Sweden 2
60 Switzerland 7
61 Turkey 4
62 Yugoslavia 5
63 other W.Europe 0
64 Albania 0
65 Bulgaria 0
66 Czechoslovakia 5
67 East Germany 5
68 Hungary 10
69 Poland 49
70 Romania 3
71 USSR 23
72 French Somaliland 0
73 Algeria 0
74 Angola 0
75 Burundi 0
76 Cameroon republic 0
77 Central African Rep 0
78 Chad 0
79 Congo 0
80 Zaire 0
81 Dahomey 0
82 Equatorial Guinea 0
83 Ethiopia 0
84 Gabon 0
85 Guinea, Rep of 0
86 Portuguese Guinea 0
87 Ivory Coast 0
88 Liberia 0
89 Madascar 0
90 Mali 0
91 Mauritania 0
92 Morocco 0
93 Mozambique 0
94 Niger 0
95 Rwanda 0
96 Spanish Sahara 0
97 Senegal 0
98 Somalia 0
99 South Africa 27
100 Sudan 2
101 Togo 0
102 Tunisia 0
103 UAR Egypt 4
104 Upper Volta 0
105 other Africa 0
106 Bahrain 0
107 Iran 1
108 Iraq 1
109 Israel 3
110 Jordan 0
111 Kuwait 0
112 Lebanon 0
113 Libya 1
114 Oman 0
115 Qatar 0
116 Saudi Arabia 0
117 South Yemen 1
118 Syria 0
119 UnitedArabEmirates 0
120 the Yemen 0
121 Afghanistan 0
122 Bhutan 0
123 Burma 14
124 Cambodia=KhmerRepa 0
125 China 5
126 Taiwan 0
127 Indonesia 2
128 Japan 1
129 North Korea 0
130 South Korea 0
131 Laos 0
132 Macau 0
133 Maldives 0
134 Mongolia 0
135 Nepal 0
136 Philippines 1
137 Thailand 0
138 North Vietnam 0
139 South Vietnam 0
140 Pacific islands 0
141 USA 23
142 Argentina 6
143 Bolivia 0
144 Brazil 4
145 Chile 2
146 Colombia 1
147 Costa Rica 0
148 Cuba 0
149 Dominican Republic 1
150 Ecuador 0
151 Guatemala 0
152 French Guiana 0
153 Surinam 0
154 Haiti 0
155 Honduras 0
156 Mexico 0
157 Nicaragua 0
158 Panama 0
159 Paraguay 0
160 Peru 1
161 Puerto Rico 0
162 El Salvador 0
163 Uruguay 0
164 Venezuela 0
165 other America 0
166 Germany: E or W 35
167 Ireland: N or S 2
168 Korea N or S 0
169 Vietnam N or S 0
170 UK unspecified 1
171 Bangladesh 12
172 W.Indies n.e.s 0
999 MA\PA in this household 0
-9 38
-8 8
Sysmiss 10269
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationGeneral Household Survey, 1972
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