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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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Electricity service (AR1980A_ELECT)

Data file: ARG1980_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 196
End: 196
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

<p><svar a="all" v="AR80A043">8. Electrical service<br /><div class="i1">[] With electricity from a public network<br />[] With electricity generated by household<br />[] No electricity</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 With electricity from a public network
2 With electricity generated by household
3 Does not have electricity
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="AR80A043"><span class="em">8. Lighting Facilities. You will fill out the corresponding cell:</span><br />With electricity from the public system.<br /><br />With electricity by their own generator, it is the supply by their own means whatever the type of motor used.<br /></svar>

Description

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

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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