Place of birth of parent of person

Status: This standard was approved as a departmental standard on June 22, 2021.

Definition

Place of birth of parent refers to the name of the geographic location where the father, mother or parent of the person was born. The geographic location is specified according to geographic boundaries current at the time of data collection, not the geographic boundaries at the time of birth.

Person refers to an individual and is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programs.

Usage

'Parent' can refer to the legal parent or birth parent of the person, depending on the purpose of the data.

Conformity to relevant internationally recognized standards

This standard is compatible with the recommendations for censuses contained in the United Nations' "Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 3", 2017. The UN recommends collecting the information on country of birth of parents following the same guidelines given for country of birth of person. For the foreign-born parents, information on the specific country of birth should be collected according to national boundaries existing at the time of the census. This standard follows this recommendation.

Classifications

• Variant of the Standard Classification of Countries and Areas of Interest 2022 for Social Statistics June 13, 2023 to current
• Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2021 September 07, 2021 to current
• Classification of generation status June 22, 2021 to current
• Classification of place of birth of parent June 22, 2021 to current
• Classification of place of birth of parents June 22, 2021 to current
• Countries and Areas of Interest for Social Statistics - SCCAI 2019 September 15, 2020 to June 12, 2023
• Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2016 May 16, 2016 to September 06, 2021

Additional information

See:

• Generation status of person
• Place of birth of person

Relation to previous version

• Place of birth of parent of person June 22, 2021 to current

  This standard replaces the standards on 'Place of birth of mother of person' and 'Place of birth of father of person'.

• Place of birth of father of person January 11, 2016 to June 21, 2021

  This standard was replaced by the 'Place of birth of parent of person' as of June 22, 2021.

• Place of birth of mother of person January 11, 2016 to June 21, 2021

  This standard was replaced by the 'Place of birth of parent of person' as of June 22, 2021.