Latin American Census Data: Costa Rica, 2011

This collection comprises six geospatial datasets from Costa Rica's Censo 2011, collected by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC) and documented and restructured by East View Cartographic, Inc. as part of a partnership with IPUMS International titled the Global Census Archive. The collection includes five Shapefile polygon layers organized by thematic category — Demographic, Economic, Housing, Migration, and Social — at the district administrative level (ADM3), plus the source ESRI Geodatabase from which the thematic layers were derived. All data covers 472 districts with 719 total attribute variables across five thematic tables. Demographic indicators include marital status and number of offspring; economic indicators cover occupation, employment, and sector; housing indicators document house type, building materials and physical characteristics, amenities, and ownership status; migration indicators include immigration, geographic mobility, and internal migration; and social indicators encompass race and ethnicity, indigenous group membership, social insurance, disability status, education, and access to technology. All variable names were translated from Spanish, with field name prefixes used to organize attributes by theme (D = Demographic, E = Economic, H = Housing, M = Migration, S = Social). Refer to the metadata and documentation for original and translated codebooks and methodology.