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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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Flat screen television (MX2015A_TVFLAT)

Data file: MEX2015_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 261
End: 261
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
23. Appliances, and information and communication technology (ICT)
<br />In this dwelling, do you have:
<br />[Read all the options and circle one code for each one]</p>
<div class="i1">Refrigerator</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i1">Washing machine</div><div class="i2">[] 3 Yes<br />[] 4 No</div><div class="i1">Microwave</div><div class="i2">[] 5 Yes<br />[] 6 No</div><div class="i1">Car or truck</div><div class="i2">[] 7 Yes<br />[] 8 No</div><div class="i1">Some type of equipment to listen to the radio</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i1">Television</div><div class="i2">[] 3 Yes<br />[] 4 No</div><div class="i1">Flat-screen TV</div><div class="i2">[] 5 Yes<br />[] 6 No</div><div class="i1">Computer</div><div class="i2">[] 7 Yes<br />[] 8 No</div><div class="i1">Landline telephone</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i1">Cellular phone</div><div class="i2">[] 3 Yes<br />[] 4 No</div><div class="i1">Internet</div><div class="i2">[] 5 Yes<br />[] 6 No</div><div class="i1">Paid television service</div><div class="i2">[] 7 Yes<br />[] 8 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">23. Appliances, and information, and communication technology (ICT)</span>
<br />These questions distinguish whether the dwelling occupants have appliances and technology services used for information and communication. Search for each good or service, listen the answer and circle the corresponding codes to the answer of the informant.</p>

<p>[Figures are omitted]</p>
<ul class="b1">
<li>A radio refers to anything that makes possible to hear some frequency (AM and FM) of massive broadcasting, which includes radio, radio-recording, radio-alarm clock, and modular radio device, as well as devices that have this function, such as cell phones and music players, when this use is indicated by the informant.</li>

<li>The occupants have TV if the dwelling has a device that reproduces audiovisual signals of television in any form, model, or type of signal.</li>

<li>The flat screen TV is a device that receives the digital signal. Record that they do have this TV type even if it is the same TV indicated in the previous option.</li>

<li>The option "computer" includes desktop and portable computers, such as laptop, tablet, or notebook.</li>

<li>The occupants have Internet access if they access to this communication means, regardless the device they use (desktop, laptop, cell phone, among others).</li>

<li>The option "cable television" includes any type of provider and technology, either cable, antenna, among others; you can even mention provider names such as <span class="lang">VeTv, Dish, Cablemas, Megacable, Sky, TvCable</span>, or others that you have in your work area.</li>

<li>Consider that the occupants have devices or services if they are in working conditions or if the informant says that are damaged but they will take them to repair.</li>

<li>If the respondent reports that a device belongs to the company or institution where one household member works, record that they do not have that appliance.</li>
</ul>

Description

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

concept

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