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Demographic and Health Survey 1990-1991 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1990 - 1991
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PAK_1990_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Population Studies [Pakistan] and IRD/Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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HH has room cooler (M_ROOMCOOLER)

Data file: PAK1991-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 327
End: 327
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
H6. Does your household have the following?

ELECTRICITY

YES 1
NO 2

RADIO

YES 1
NO 2

TELEVISION

YES 1
NO 2

FRIDGE

YES 1
NO 2

ROOM COOLER

YES 1
NO 2

WASHING MACHINE

YES 1
NO 2

WATER PUMP

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
8 Missing
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
ROOMCOOLER indicates whether the household has a room cooler, also known as an evaporative cooler, swamp cooler, desert cooler, or wet air cooler. This device cools the air inside a dwelling through the evaporation of water, requiring much less energy than air conditioning but demanding regular replenishing with water.

The information in ROOMCOOLER is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Possessions Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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