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National Censuses 2017: 12th Population Census, 7th Housing Census, 3rd Indigenous Communities Census, and 1st Farmer Communities Census - IPUMS Subset

Peru, 2017
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Dwelling receives electricity from public network (PE2017A_ELECT)

Data file: PER2017_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 187
End: 187
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Section II. Characteristics and services of the housing unit (continued)</span></p>

<p><span class="em">11. Does the housing unit have electricity lighting from the public grid?</span><div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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="h1">5. Chapter 5: Specific instructions to fill out Section II: Characteristics and services of the housing unit</span>
<br />If there is more than one household in the housing unit, please fill in Section II, "Characteristics and services of the housing unit" for the main household only.</p>

<p><span class="h3">Question 11: Does the housing unit have electricity from the public grid?</span></p>

<p>This question refers to whether the housing unit has electric lighting through a public grid, which comes from electric power distribution companies. It includes the electric lighting service provided through the Municipality generator or engine.</p>

<p>If the respondent answers that electricity is supplied from the street pole or from their neighbor, then fill in the oval of option 2, "no".</p>

<p><span class="em">Public grid</span>: When the electric power supplied to the housing unit is provided by a system of aerial or subway cables of formal electric utilities companies.

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Universe
Peru 2017: Private occupied dwellings with persons present [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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