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2020 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2016 - 2020
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Home heating fuel (US2020A_FUELHEAT)

Data file: USA2020_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 286
End: 286
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Housing</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Please answer the following questions about the house, apartment, or mobile home at the address on the mailing label.</span></p>

<p>13. Which fuel is used most for heating this house, apartment or mobile home?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Gas: from underground pipes serving the neighborhood<br />[] Gas: bottled, tank or LP<br />[] Electricity<br />[] Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.<br />[] Coal or coke<br />[] Wood<br />[] Solar energy<br />[] Other fuel<br />[] No fuel used</div>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 No fuel used
2 Utility gas from underground pipes serving neighborhood
3 Bottled, tank, or liquefied petroleum gas
4 Electricity
5 Fuel oil, kerosene, other liquid fuels
6 Coal or coke
7 Wood
8 Solar energy
9 Other
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.

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United States 2020: Private occupied households [discrepancies: none]

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