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General Population Census IV and Housing III - IPUMS Subset

Uruguay, 1975
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URY_1975_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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General Office of Statistics and Censuses, IPUMS
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Lighting source (UY1975A_LIGHT)

Data file: URY1975_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 136
End: 136
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="UY75A047">4. Lighting service of the dwelling<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Electric from <span class="lang">U.T.E.</span> [public electricity company]<br />[] 2 Other electric source<br />[] 3 Not electric</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 From U.T.E. (public utility)
2 Other electric source
3 Not electric
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
<svar v="UY75A044 UY75A045 UY75A046 UY75A047"><span class="em">E. Private dwelling information</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="UY75A047">4. Service of lighting of the dwelling<br /><div class="i1">133. Below you will register the lighting service, a theme that does not offer difficulties. Two large groups are distinguished: electric and non-electric.<br /><br />If the electric service is not provided by the U.T.E. [<span class="lang">Usinas y Terminales Eléctricas</span>], register it by marking box 2.<br /><br />If the service is non-electric, register this situation in box 3 without specifying the type of lighting.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the lighting source for the household.
Universe
Uruguay 1975: Private occupied households [discrepancies: type I trace, type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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