National Census of Dwellings and Population 1971 - IPUMS Subset

Nicaragua, 1971

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Reference ID

NIC_1971_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, Minnesota Population Center

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Radio and television (NI1971A_0044)

Data file: NIC1971-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 149

End: 149

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

14. Household appliances

Radio

[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No

Television

[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No

Electric iron

[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No

Refrigerator

[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes, has both radio and television
2	Yes, has radio only
3	Yes, has television only
4	No, does not have radio or television
8	Unknown
9	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

Question #14

Household appliances

a. How to carry out the investigation
The informant should be asked if the household has a radio, television, electric iron, and refrigerator.

b. How to record the data
According to the informant's answer, the corresponding boxes are marked with an "X". For this question, one or more boxes are marked according to the appliances available to the household.

c. Example:

[These instructions refer to a graph of question 14 on the census form]

Description

Definition

This variable indicates if the household has radio or television.

Universe

Private occupied households

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Appliances, Mechanicals, Other Amenities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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