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General Census of Population and Housing, 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 1996
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GIN_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Census Bureau, Republic of Guinea, IPUMS
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Number of rooms (GN1996A_ROOMS)

Data file: GIN1996_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 202
End: 203
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="GN96A042 GN96A043 GN96A044 GN96A045 GN96A046 GN96A047 GN96A048 GN96A049 GN96A050"><span class="h2">Housing characteristics</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="GN96A050">H09 Number of rooms inhabited by the household _ _<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
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49 49
50 50+
98 Unknown
99 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="GN96A050"><span class="em">H09 Number of rooms inhabited by the household</span><br />The number of rooms inhabited by the household are all the inhabitable spaces bounded by walls or partitions and the totality of which makes up a lodging, specifically, in this instance, the lodging inhabited by the [household]. A bedroom, a living or family room and a kitchen, if it is large enough to possibly place an adult-sized bed, are generally included here.<br /><br />The bathrooms, the showers, the toilets and the verandas are not counted in the number of [inhabitable] rooms. A household may occupy 1, 2, 3 or several neighboring buildings to house itself or [lodge] within the same compound. In this case, the number of rooms inhabited by the household is the sum of the number of inhabited rooms in each one of these buildings.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 59]</span><br /><br />Given that the variable "number of rooms occupied by the household" is [a] quantitative variable, express the answer using 2 numbers, which you should write in the numbering grid. For example:<br />/_0/_5/ for 5 rooms<br />/_0/_1/ for 1 room<br />/_1/_2/ for 12 rooms<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the number of rooms inhabited by the household.
Universe
Guinea 1996: Non-collective dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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