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XI Population Census and VI Housing Census of 2002 - IPUMS Subset

Guatemala, 2002
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GTM_2002_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS
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Number of bedrooms (GT2002A_BEDROOMS)

Data file: GTM2002_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 201
End: 202
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Chapter IV. Habitation situation of the household</span></p>

<p>[Questions 7 to 13 are asked of all dwellings]</p>

<p><span class="em">7. How many rooms are there in the dwelling not counting the bathroom or kitchen?</span> _ _</p>

<p><span class="em">8. Of the total rooms, how many are used as bedrooms?</span> _ _
Categories
Value Category
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12+
99 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h3">Section 4: Household housing status</span></p>

<p>The information you record in this section is for each household in a dwelling.</p>

<p><span class="em">8. Bedrooms</span>
<br />Ask, "Of all the rooms, how many in total are used as bedrooms?"</p>

<p>[A graphic of question 8, from section 4 of the census form, is included here.]</p>

<p>Bedroom: This is a room normally used for sleeping.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the number of rooms used as bedrooms available for the household.
Universe
Guatemala 2002: Private households [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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