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XIII Recenseamento Geral da População e III Recenseamento Geral da Habitação - IPUMS Subset

Portugal, 1991
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PRT_1991_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Portugal Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), IPUMS
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Household type (PT1991A_GQ)

Data file: PRT1991_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 150
End: 150
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="PT91A027 PT91A028">6. Type of living quarter<br /><div class="i1">Housing unit</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 11 Conventional dwelling<br />[] 13 Shack<br />[] 14 Rudimentary wooden house<br />[] 15 Mobile housing unit<br />[] 17 In a permanent building not designed for habitation<br />[] 19 Other inhabited<br />[] 22 On-board population<br />[] 25 Diplomatic personnel<br />[] 33 Hotel or similar</div><br /><div class="i1">Collective living quarter (cohabitation)</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 40 Social support<br />[] 42 Education<br />[] 44 Health<br />[] 47 Religious<br />[] 49 Military<br />[] 51 Prison<br />[] 53 Work<br />[] 55 Other type</div><br /><div class="i1">If options 22-55 are chosen for question 6, end this questionnaire</div><br /></svar>
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Value Category
1 Private household
2 Institutional household
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
<svar a="all" v="PT91A027 PT91A028"><span class="em">Question 6: Type of living quarter:</span><br /><br />The family dwellings can be of the following two types:<br /><div class="i1"><span class="ital">Conventional family dwelling</span>: Division or set of divisions and their annexes that make part of a classical building, <span class="ital">i.e.</span>, a permanent structure or a structure that by the way it was constructed, reconstructed, enlarged or transformed is destined to be inhabited and on the census moment it was not being used entirely for other purposes.<br /><br /><span class="ital">Non-Conventional dwelling</span>: Place that on the census moment is inhabited by individuals and that by the type and precarious way of the construction does not entirely satisfy the requirements to be a conventional family dwelling.<br /><br />We include in this type: Shacks, rudimentary wood houses, mobile housing units, dwellings in a permanent building not designed for habitation and other inhabited places.</div><br />As collective living quarters we understand every place that by the way it was constructed or transformed is destined to shelter more than one household and on the census moment is occupied by one or more individuals being residents or by-passers.<br /><br />We include in this type: hotel or similar, camps and institutions.<br />In this last type we can identify the following sub-types of dwellings according to their purposes:<br /><div class="i1">Social support<br />Education<br />Health<br />Religious<br />Military<br />Prison<br />Work<br />Other types</div><br />Note: We only observe collective living quarters if they are functioning on the census moment, namely the hotels and similar as long as they are available to receive persons.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates if the household is private or institutional.
Universe
Portugal 1991: Occupied households [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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