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1999 Population Census of the Republic of Belarus - IPUMS Subset

Belarus, 1999
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BLR_1999_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus, IPUMS
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Rooms (BY1999A_ROOMS)

Data file: BLR1999_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 150
End: 151
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="BY99A038 BY99A039 BY99A040 BY99A041 BY99A042"><span class="h3">Questions 5 - 7 to be completed for the household</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="BY99A040"><span class="em">6. Number of occupied rooms</span><br /><div class="i1">___<br />___ 99 (part of room)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8+
96 Part of room
99 Unknown
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 v="BY99A039 BY99A040 BY99A041 BY99A042"><span class="em">Questions 5P - 7P. are to be completed for households.</span><br /><br />Before completing questions 5P - 7P, in a special box of the line "No. of the first member of the household within the dwelling" the serial number is to be entered, under which the person recorded first in the household is specified in column 1 of section 1 of the list of residents in the dwelling. In accordance with the example given on page 10, the following numbers of "the first members of households within the dwelling" are to be inserted: for Tikhonov's household -- No. 1, for Rulev's household -- No. 3, for Bulgakhov's household -- No. 4.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="BY99A040"><span class="em">Question 6P. Number of rooms occupied</span><br /><br />The number of habitable rooms occupied by a household is to be recorded here.<br /><br />The record is to be entered in numbers (e.g., 1, 2, 3, etc) in a special box.<br /><br />If a household does not occupy the whole room, but only its part, the item "part of room" is to be marked.<br /><br />If a household occupies two or more rooms, but some of those gives in rent, the total number of rooms (including those rented) is to be recorded.<br /><br />Habitable room is a room intended for residence: part of a flat (hostel) separated from other rooms by partitions.<br /><br />Attics, mezzanines, heated terraces and verandahs equipped for habitation the year round are to be included in the number of habitable rooms.<br /><br />The number of habitable rooms excludes: kitchens, halls, corridors, bath (or shower) rooms, storerooms, and other subsidiary rooms.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the number of rooms in the housing unit.
Universe
Belarus 1999: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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