National Census District-Level Migration Indicators: Immigration, Geographic Mobility, and Internal Migration for Costa Rica, 2011

Description:

This polygon shapefile represents basic population characteristics for districts in Costa Rica, collected as part of the Censo 2011 by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. Indicators in this layer include measures relating to immigration (i.e. time of arrival in Costa Rica, country of birth etc.) and geographic mobility and internal migration (i.e. did the respondent live in a different canton five years ago?). This layer was derived from a geodatabase (see the related data file) and was documented and restructured by East View Cartographic, Inc. The census data is provided at the district administrative level (ADM3) and includes 472 polygons with 719 attribute variables, split into 5 layers. Attribute descriptions retain original language names and unique identifier codes. All variable names were translated from Spanish. Field name prefixes, originally written with coded titles, were renamed to create unique names (e.g. Original variable of “Estado Civil: Unión Libre o Juntadoa” was updated to D001 and given the alias “Marital Status: Free Union[Estado Civil: Unión Libre o Juntadoa]”, the letter D was given as it relates to the Demographic theme table. D = Demographic, E = Economic, H = Housing, M = Migration and S = Social). All variables from the original data were reviewed for completeness and organized into their relevant themes of Demographic, Economic, Housing, Migration and Social. In attribute tables, all geographic names and codes are represented as text fields and census data are represented as doubles or long integers. Automated tools were run to apply aliases in the format “English translation field description[original language field description]”. Vector data was analyzed for accuracy and compared with national boundaries. This layer is part of a partnership project with East View Cartographic and IPUMS International, titled the Global Census Archive. Refer to the metadata and documentation for original and translated codebooks and methodology.

Resource Link:

https://archive.nyu.edu/retrieve/124438/nyu_2451_36519_doc.zip

Identifier:

http://hdl.handle.net/2451/36519

Language:

English

Creator:

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos

Publisher:

East View Cartographic, Inc.

Provider:

NYU

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Polygon data

Subject:

Census, Census districts, Demographic surveys, Demography, Society, and Migration

Temporal Coverage:

2011

Date Issued:

2016

Spatial Coverage:

Costa Rica

Access Rights:

Restricted

Format:

Shapefile