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1990 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Trinidad and Tobago, 1980
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TTO_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Office, IPUMS
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Number of bedrooms in dwelling unit (TT1990A_BEDROOMS)

Data file: TTO1990_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 147
End: 147
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Characteristics of the dwelling unit occupied by household</span></p>

<p>Interviewer: A dwelling unit must have a separate entrance and not be accessed or entered through someone else's living arrangements.</p>

<p>42. Number of bedrooms
<br />42(a). How many bedrooms are there in this dwelling? </p>
<div class="i1">Count all bedrooms including spares not occupied. Bedrooms are rooms mainly used for sleeping and exclude makeshift and temporary sleeping quarters.<br /><br />[] 0<br />[] 1<br />[] 2<br />[] 3<br />[] 4<br />[] 5 and more<br />[] 9 Not stated</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 None
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5+
9 Unknown
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="h3">Characteristics of the dwelling unit </span></p>

<p>Question 42[a] - Number of bedrooms</p>
<div class="i1">Bedrooms are rooms used exclusively for sleeping. There must be some permanency about the walls enclosing the bedroom. A dwelling unit which uses a room for other activities by day and sleeping by night has "no bedrooms". Makeshift arrangements, blinds etc. do not count as rooms.</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the number of bedrooms in the dwelling.
Universe
Trinidad and Tobago 1990: All households

concept

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