Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS

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Cooking energy source (CM2005A_FUELCK)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 216

End: 216

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="CM05A089">55. Main source of energy for cooking<br /><div class="i1">[] Electricity<br />[] Gas<br />[] Kerosene<br />[] Saw dust<br />[] Firewood or charcoal<br />[] Other</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Electricity
2	Gas
3	Kerosene
4	Saw dust
5	Firewood or charcoal
6	Other
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

<svar a="all" v="CM05A089"><span class="em">55. Main source of energy for the kitchen</span><br />The codes of the terms for this variable are:<br /><div class="i1">1-Electricity<br />2-Gas<br />3-Oil<br />4-Shavings/sawdust<br />5-Burning wood/coal/charcoal<br />6-Other to specify</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">Q. What type of fuel do you most often use to cook?<br />-Mark in the indicated space the code corresponding to the answer of the surveyed person</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the type of fuel used for cooking.

Universe

Cameroon 2005: Ordinary households [discrepancies: type I trace, type II none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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