General Household Survey, 2008-09 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2009

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Reference ID

NGA_2008_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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National Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

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Type of building started (NG2008A_BUILDTYP)

Data file: NGA2008_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 197

End: 197

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

65. What is the type of building?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Residential<br />[] 2 Commercial<br />[] 3 Industrial<br />[] 4 Other</div>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Residential
2	Commercial
3	Industrial
4	Other
8	Unknown
9	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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the type of building started.

Universe

Nigeria 2008: Persons age 20+ who started a building project this year [discrepancies: type I trace; type II 0.1%]

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