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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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Tenure status (EG1996A_0041)

Data file: EGY1996-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 128
End: 128
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Occupancy status

[] 1 Rented
[] 2 Furnished
[] 3 Owned
[] 6 Granted
[] 7 Other
Categories
Value Category
1 Ordinary rent
2 Furnished rent
3 Owned
4 Publicly owned
5 Grant
6 In return for services
7 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
Occupancy status:
Putting in ink the circle that is in front of one of the numbers from (1) to (6) according to the status and if neither of these status corresponds, the circle is put in front of the number (7) in ink as in the case of the ownership of a share in a living quarter by inheritance and renting the other part of it (owned by the rest heirs).

The following is regarded in choosing the type of occupancy status
1. Owned: this is when the household owns its living quarter by inheritance or as a result of buying a share in an estate or buying a whole estate or direct construction
2. Publicly owned: if the living quarter is bought by the currently used system investment with ownership and this system is sometimes done on a free housing unit
3. Grant: this is if the living quarter is owned free without money as a result of a special relation between the tenant and the owner of the housing unit for example, the owner may be father, mother, brother...etc.
4. In return of services: if the worker owns the living quarter free of cash money or pays little rent to the employer as a sample of his salary.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the tenure status of the dwelling.
Universe
All households

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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