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National Population and Housing Census, 1980 - IPUMS Subset

Argentina, 1980
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ARG_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Argentine National institute of Statistics and Censuses, IPUMS
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Age of construction (AR1980A_CONYR)

Data file: ARG1980_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 199
End: 199
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">B. Dwelling</span></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="AR80A046">10. Approximate age of the original dwelling construction<br /><div class="i1">[] Up to 5 years<br />[] 6 to 10 years<br />[] 11 to 20<br />[] 21 to 30<br />[] 31 to 50<br />[] More than 50</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Up to 5 years
2 6 to 10 years
3 11 to 20
4 21 to 30
5 31 to 50
6 More than 50
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
<span class="h1">B. Dwelling</span></p>

<p>It is any housing fixed or mobile that has been built or adapted for housing persons. A house, apartment, trailer, tenant room, shack, hospital, and a room are all considered dwellings.</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="AR80A046"><span class="em">10. Approximate age of the original construction of the dwelling:</span><br />You will check the age of the dwelling. If it is constructed by parts, you will indicate the information referring to the principal part or the largest surface. In buildings understood to be many dwellings (apartment houses, tenant rooms, etc.) try to get this information by means of the most competent persons, owners, managers, part owners or oldest tenants, etc.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the age of the household's construction.
Universe
Argentina 1980: Private dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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