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National Population and Housing Census 1978 - IPUMS Subset

Poland, 1978
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POL_1978_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Number of floors in building (PL1978A_HTBLDG)

Data file: POL1978_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 124
End: 125
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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Literal question
4. Height of building (number of floors)</p>
<div class="i1">[] 0 Ground-floor building<br />[] 1 One-floor building<br />[] 2 Two-floor building<br />[] 3 Three-floor building<br />[] 4 Four-floor building<br />[] 5 Five to nine-floor building<br />[] 6 Ten-floor building<br />[] 7 Eleven-floor building<br />[] 8 Twelve and over-floor building</div>
Categories
Value Category
00 Ground floor building
01 1 floor
02 2 floors
03 3
04 4
05 5 to 9
06 10
07 11
08 12 or more
98 Unknown
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the height, represented in number of floors, that the building is.
Universe
Poland 1978: Private dwellings excluding provisional or mobile housing [discrepancies: type I 0.2%; type II trace]

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