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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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Living quarters tenure (FJ1996A_TENURE)

Data file: FJI1996_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 189
End: 189
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="FJ96A039">H9. Tenure: The living quarters<br />Does this household<br /><div class="i1">[] 1. Own or have a mortgage on these living quarters<br />[] 2. Rent them from a Private Landlord<br />[] 3. Rent them from the Public Rental Board<br />[] 4. Occupy government or institutional housing<br />[] 5. Occupy this housing by leave of the employer<br />[] 6. Pay no rent or have an informal renting arrangement with the landowner<br />[] 7. Other, specify _____</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Own or have a mortgage on these living quarters
2 Rent from a private landlord
3 Rent from the public rental board
4 Occupy government or institutional housing
5 Occupy this housing by leave of employer
6 Pay no rent or have an informal renting arrangement with the landowner
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="FJ96A039">187. Question H9 - Tenure - The living quarters<br /><br />This question refers to the arrangements by which a household occupies its living quarters.<br />Ask,<br />'Does this household pay rent for its living quarters?'<br /><br />188. If the answer is 'no', the household either owns the living quarters or occupies them in some other way.<br /><br /><div class="i1">Owning means that the household or a member of it owns the living quarters or is paying for them by installments. No rent is paid, nor does the household occupy its quarters with someone else's permission.<br /><br />If the household pays no rent but does not own its living quarters, it either occupies them with an employer's permission, as in the case of living-in domestic servants, or in some other way which you should describe.</div><br /><br />189. If the answer is 'yes' and the household does pay rent for its living quarters,<br />Ask<br />'Who is the rent paid to?'<br /><br />and insert the appropriate code.<br /><br />If you cannot decide on the category box, describe the arrangements by which the household occupies its quarters under 'other'.<br /></svar>

Description

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

concept

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