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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Sleeping place, homeless (CM2005A_SLEEPHML)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 237

End: 237

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
1	Markets
2	Bus station, playground, abandoned building
7	Other
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

<svar a="all" v="CM05A457"><span class="em">Q10. Location of sleeping arrangements</span><br />The location of the sleeping arrangements is the place where one can find the homeless individual. The codes for locations likely to shelter homeless people are:<br /><br /><div class="i1">1-markets<br />2-bus or train station<br />3-abandoned building<br />4-sports or theater facility<br />5-launderette<br />6-parking garages<br />7-abandoned garages or vehicles<br />8-tunnels or bridges<br />9-others to specify</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">-Mark the code of the location of sleeping arrangements of the surveyed person in the reserved space.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates a homeless person's sleeping place.

Universe

Cameroon 2005: Persons in homeless households [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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