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Intercensal Survey 2015 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2015
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MEX_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Kitchen (MX2015A_KITCHEN)

Data file: MEX2015_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 224
End: 224
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
6. Kitchen
<br />Does this dwelling have a room for cooking?
<br />[Circle one code]</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes [skip to question 8]<br />[] 3 No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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="em">6. Kitchen</span>
<br />This question seeks to know if the house has a room for food preparation.</p>

<p>[Figures are omitted]</p>

<p>A dwelling has a room for cooking when it is bounded by walls and has at the least than a stove or wood-burning stove to prepare or heat food, even if this room is used as bedroom, living room, among others.</p>

<p>It is considered that the dwelling does not have a room for cooking when it has no stove, wood-burning stove, or grill, or when these objects are in hallways, corridors, under an awning, or outdoors.</p>

<p>If the respondent answers that the dwelling has a room for cooking, go to question 8 "Fuel". Otherwise, ask question 7 " Place used for cooking".

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the dwelling has kitchen.
Universe
Mexico 2015: Private dwellings built for habitation [discrepancies: none]

concept

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