IX National Population and Housing Census 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 2010

Get Microdata

Reference ID

DOM_2010_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Dec 22, 2014

Last modified

Mar 29, 2019

Page views

20361

Downloads

606

Type of lighting (DO2010A_0126)

Data file: DOM2010-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 253

End: 253

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Section IV - Household characteristics

17. What type of electricity does your household use?

[] 1 Public electricity
[] 2 Propane lamp
[] 3 Kerosene lamp
[] 4 Electricity from own generator
[] 5 Other

Categories

Value	Category
1	Public electricity
2	Propane lamp
3	Kerosene lamp
4	Electricity from own generator
5	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

Question 17. What type of electricity does your household use?

The answer to this question helps identify what type of electricity is used or mostly used in households. It is a basic component of the social conditions of well-being.

Ask the question to the interviewee and record the answer. If the informant replies that the household uses electricity, fill in code 1. When the type of electricity is different than the options provided in 1 to 4, then fill in the option of code 5 "Other".

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the type of lighting used by the household.

Universe

Private, occupied dwellings

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

Back to Catalog