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1960 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1960
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Clothes dryer (US1960A_DRYER)

Data file: USA1960_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 204
End: 204
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="US60A056">[5%] <br /><span class="em">H24. Do you have an electric or gas clothes dryer? </span><br /><div class="i1">Do not count dryers shared with any other household in this building.</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">[] Electrically heated dryer <br />[] Gas heated dryer <br />[] No dryer</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 No clothes dryer
2 Electrically-heated dryer
3 Gas-heated dryer
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 whether the housing unit contained a clothes-drying machine, and whether the dryer's heat source was electricity or gas.
Universe
United States 1960: Not group quarters; only answered by 20 percent of cases [discrepancies: none]

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