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IV Housing Census and IX Population Census of 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Guatemala, 1981
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GTM_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS
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Year of construction of dwelling (GT1981A_BLTYEAR)

Data file: GTM1981_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 196
End: 196
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">II. Characteristics of the place of habitation</span></p>

<p>6. Year of construction</p>
<div class="i1">In what year was the place of habitation built?<br /><br />Before the 1976 earthquake:</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Before 1973<br />[] 2 From 1973 to 1976</div><div class="i1">After the 1976 earthquake:</div><div class="i2">[] 3 From 1976 to 1977<br />[] 4 From 1978 to 1979<br />[] 5 From 1980 to 1981</div><div class="i1">[] 9 Unknown</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Before 1973
2 1973 to 1976
3 1976 to 1977
4 1978 to 1979
5 1980 to 1981
8 Unknown
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
<span class="h2">II. Dwelling characteristics</span></p>

<p>As mentioned previously, questions 1 through 9 of this section should be investigated for each one of the "dwellings". The specific instructions that follow will allow the enumerator to complete the work more efficiently.</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="GT81A039"><span class="em">Question 6: year of construction</span><br /><br />1. How to investigate this question<br /><br />The enumerator will ask the year of construction of the dwelling.<br /><br />In the cases in which this information is not known, other persons (members of other households living in the same dwelling, neighbors, etc.) are asked until someone qualified to answer the question is found.<br /><br />2. How to record the data<br /><br />Once the year of the dwelling's construction has been identified, the number of the category is circled.<br /><br />3. Example:<br /><br />[These instructions refer to a graphic of question 6 of the census form]<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the year of construction of the dwelling.
Universe
Guatemala 1981: Private occupied households [discrepacies: none]

concept

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