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1996 Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Fiji, 1996
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FJI_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Fiji Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
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Land tenure (FJ1996A_LANDOWN)

Data file: FJI1996_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 190
End: 190
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="FJ96A040">H10. Tenure: The land<br />Is the land on which the living quarters is situated<br /><div class="i1">[] 1. Owned outright freehold<br />[] 2. Leased from State<br />[] 3. Leased from NLTB<br />[] 4. Occupied without legal arrangement, state or freehold land<br />[] 5. Occupied Native Land with informal arrangement<br />[] 6. Occupied through traditional village tenure<br />[] 7. Other, specify _____</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Owned outright freehold
2 Leased from the state
3 Leased from Native Land Trust Board (NLTB)
4 Occupied without legal arrangement, state or freehold land
5 Occupied native land with informal arrangement
6 Occupied through traditional village tenure
7 Other
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="FJ96A040">190. Question H10 - Tenure: The land<br /><br />191. Ask,<br />"Who owns the land on which the household's living quarters is situated".<br /><br /><div class="i1">Insert the relevant code.<br /><br />1. Owned outright freehold land.<br /><br />2. Leased from state.<br /><br />3. Leased from NLTB.<br /><br />4. Occupied without legal arrangement. [State or freehold land].<br />People living on freehold or state land or reclaimed land [mangroves] should be included in here. People living without legal arrangement on Native Land should be included under 5.<br /><br />5. Occupied Native land with informal arrangement.<br />This will include households which may occupy mataqali land and either pay rent or live rent free with the mataqali's permission. But there is no legal tenure or lease. Fijians living rent free on land belonging to another mataqali should be included here.<br /><br />6. Occupied through traditional village tenure. These are Fijian households living on their own mataqali land and do not pay rent.<br /><br />7. Other - generally household with special arrangement for use of land not classifiable under codes 1 through 6. Describe as the case may be.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the land tenure.
Universe
Fiji 1996: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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