Population Census Jamaica 1982 - IPUMS Subset

Jamaica, 1982

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Reference ID

JAM_1982_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

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Population Census Unit, Department of Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

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Dec 20, 2012

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Year of construction (JM1982A_0050)

Data file: JAM1982-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 130

End: 131

Width: 2

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Year of construction

Categories

Value	Category
1	1981-1982
2	1980
3	1979
4	1978
5	1977
6	1971-1976
7	1966-1970
8	1960-1965
9	Before 1960
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.

Interviewer instructions

Type of Housing Unit - Columns 14 - 17: These columns will be completed in all cases where a building has been identified as a housing unit. The codes to be used are listed on the Visitation Record.

Column 14 is for Type of Housing Unit, Column 15 for year of Construction, Column 16 for Material of Outer Walls and Column 17 for Occupancy Status of Dwellings. Each of these four columns has its own coding scheme and these are given at the bottom of Section 3.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the year that the building was constructed in which the household resides.

Universe

Private dwellings

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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