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Population Housing and Establishment Census 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1996
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EGY_1996_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, Minnesota Population Center
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Dwelling type (EG1996A_0040)

Data file: EGY1996-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 127
End: 127
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Type of housing unit

[] 1 Apartment
[] 2 More than one apartment
[] 3 Villa
[] 9 Other
Categories
Value Category
1 Apartment
2 More than one apartment
3 Whole villa
4 Whole rural house
5 One room or more
6 Separate room or more
7 Ranchose or tent
8 A grave yard enclosure
9 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
1. The apartment building:
It is a building consist of one floor or more and there is more than one apartment in each floor

2. The dwelling:
It is a building consists of one floor or more and in each floor there is one apartment or room or more of the independent rooms.

3. Villa:
It is an independent building consists of two floors connected by interior stairs, it has garden and often the villa is a splendid type and it is considered one housing unit.

4. Rural house:
It is a building consists of one or two floors and it includes a room or more and they are all locked up by the building outer door and it is not necessary to have water circulation in it and this kind is usually spread in villages and it is often built with wet bricks or with clay, the rural house is considered one housing unit whatever the number of households is in it.



Type of building - column no. (3)

It is recorded in this column the answer and the proper code to the type of building for example: apartment building code (1) house code (2) rural house code (3) and so on according to what is explained at the top of the questionnaire regarding that: other includes buildings under construction and buildings under demolition the surrounded land and the not surrounded land that is used for work.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the dwelling type.
Universe
All households

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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