1990 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 1990

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PRI_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS

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Cooking fuel (PR1990A_FUELCOOK)

Data file: PRI1990_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 209

End: 209

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="PR90A069"><span class="em">H19. Which fuel is used for cooking? </span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Electricity<br />[] 2 Gas<br />[] 3 Other</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
	NIU (not in universe)
1	No fuel used
4	Gas, type not specified
5	Electricity

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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether or not the household used fuel for cooking and type of fuel used.

Universe

Puerto Rico 1990: Private occupied dwellings [discrepancies: none]

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Concept

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