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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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Room used exclusively for cooking (GT1981A_KITCHEN)

Data file: GTM1981_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 209
End: 209
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">III. Living situation of household number </span></p>

<p>5. Kitchen</p>

<p>Does the household have a room designated solely for cooking?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 For exclusive use by the household<br />[] 2 For the use of various households<br />[] 3 Doesn't have</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Exclusive use by this dwelling
2 For various households
3 None
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">III. Living situation of household number</span></p>

<p>The questions included in this part of the form should be investigated for each of the households that are residing in the dwelling at the time of the Census.</p>

<p>The following specific instructions will allow the enumerator to carry out the work more efficiently.</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="GT81A054"><span class="em">Question 5: kitchen</span><br /><br />The following definition will allow the enumerator to correctly carry out the investigation of this question:<br /><br />Kitchen: the room equipped for the preparation of principal meals that is used exclusively for this purpose.<br /><br />1. How to formulate the question<br /><br />Does the household have a room meant only for cooking?<br /><br />2. How to record the data<br /><br />If the answer is affirmative, the enumerator will ask if the kitchen is for the household's exclusive use or if multiple households use it. According to the answer given, one of the alternatives will be circled.<br /><br />If the household does not have a kitchen available, number "3. Does not have" is circled.<br /><br />3. Example:<br /><br />[These instructions refer to a graphic of question 5 of the census form]<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the household has a room used exclusively for cooking.
Universe
Guatemala 1981: Private occupied households [discrepacies: none]

concept

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