Home / Central Data Catalog / TZA_2008_TASAF-II_V01_M_V01_A_PUF / variable [F8]
central

Vulnerable Groups Impact Evaluation Household Survey 2008

Tanzania, 2008
Get Microdata
Reference ID
TZA_2008_TASAF-II_v01_M_v01_A_PUF
Producer(s)
Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh, Berk Ozler
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
May 02, 2012
Last modified
Mar 29, 2019
Page views
38133
Downloads
3923

What material are the walls of this house made of? (T5AQ3)

Data file: HHData_public

Overview

Valid: 1544
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 74
End: 75
Width: 2
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
What material are the walls of this house made of?
Categories
Value Category
1 Mud/Mud brick
2 Stone
3 Burnt bricks
4 Concrete/Cement
5 Wood/Bamboo
6 Iron sheets
7 Cardboard
99 Other (specify)
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
If there is more than one type of material used for walls, the interviewer will record the main one. If there is not a
significant main one, the interviewer will record the one of highest value. You do not need to ask this question if it is obvious by looking around. But if, for example, the walls are plastered you need to ask what material is behind the plaster. If the material behind the plaster is of higher value, you should choose the higher value one.
In case the walls of the dwelling seem to be build out of grass, you should figure out which material supports the grass and select that material in the list. It can not be that grass stands on its own, so the response cannot be 'grass'. You will notice that in Moshi there is a unique type of building walls materials. There is a kind of bricks that look strong but not baked. They are sliced out of naturally compacted gravel. This type of walls should be classified under 'burnt brick', i.e. code [3].
Back to Catalog