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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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Radio (GT1981A_RADIO)

Data file: GTM1981_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 217
End: 217
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

<p>8. Household appliances</p>
<div class="i1">Does the household have any of the following appliances? (Circle one or several as the case may be.)<br /><br />[] 1 Radio<br />[] 2 Television<br />[] 3 Refrigerator<br />[] 4 Sewing machine<br />[] 5 Telephone<br />[] 6 Automobile<br />[] 7 None of the above</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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="GT81A058 GT81A059 GT81A060 GT81A061 GT81A062 GT81A063 GT81A064"><span class="em">Question 8: household appliances</span><br /><br />1. How to formulate the question<br /><br />Does the household have any of the following artifacts?<br /><br />The question is asked and the list of artifacts on the form is read immediately thereafter.<br /><br />2. How to record the data<br /><br />If one or more of the artifacts listed on the form are available to the household, the enumerator will proceed to circle each of the respective numbers.<br /><br />3. Example:<br /><br />[These instructions refer to a graphic of question 8 of the census form]<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the household has a radio.
Universe
Guatemala 1981: Private occupied households [discrepacies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Appliances, Mechanicals, Other Amenities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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