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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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Tenancy (UY1975A_OWNER)

Data file: URY1975_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 148
End: 148
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="UY75A058">6. Tenancy of the home<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Owner<br />[] 2 Lessee, sub-lessee<br />[] 3 Sharecropper or <span class="lang">medianero</span><br />[] 4 Usufructuary<br />[] 5 De facto occupant<br />[] 6 Other (specify) ____</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Owned
2 Rented
3 Sharecropper [medianero]
4 Usufructuary
5 De facto occupant
6 Other
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
<svar v="UY75A049 UY75A050 UY75A051 UY75A052 UY75A053 UY75A054 UY75A055 UY75A056 UY75A057 UY75A058 UY75A059 UY75A060"><span class="em">F. Information about the private home</span><br />Once the dwelling part is finished, you will ask questions referring to the Census home.<br /><br />Remember that if in a dwelling inhabited by more than one private home you should fill out as many documents as there are homes.<br /><br />Write in each one of the documents the information about each of the homes. You should not repeat information in Section "E. Information about the private dwelling".<br /><br />Cancel this section upon enumerating the second and following homes that share this dwelling.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="UY75A058">6. Tenancy of the home<br /><div class="i1">Some explanations:</div><br /><ul class="b1">
<li>Sharecropper or <span class="lang">medianero</span>: It is the situation of a home that inhabits a dwelling as part of a contract or agreement (written or by word), by which it occupies or uses a good or exploitation, for half of the goods produced, by said good or exploitation.</li>

<li>Usufructuary: It is the situation of a home that occupies a dwelling, with authorization of the owner, without paying rent.</li>

<li>De facto occupant: It is the situation of a home that occupies a dwelling or abandoned piece of land, without the authorization of the owner of the property.</li>
</ul><br /><br /><div class="i1">160. The other situations: "Owned", "Rented" or "Subleased", do not need explanations. Your informant will give you the information directly.<br /><br />161. Don Juan Matínez, owner of a farm at Ciudadela street No. 1217, authorized Pedro López to occupy his dwelling, without collecting rent. Register this situation:<br /><br />[Below the text are two charts, one of them with the box "Usufructuary" marked]</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 50]</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">On Aparicio Savaria Avenue, a family constructed a building made of waste material, in an area of waste land, without asking for permission. Register this situation:<br /><br />[Below the text are two charts, one of them with the box "De facto occupant" marked]<br /><br />Any other situation of tenancy of home that is not understood in the previous cases, (succession, prominent buyer, etc.) will be registered in box 6 "Other", and specify on the dotted line, the case that it concerns.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the tenancy status of the dwelling.
Universe
Uruguay 1975: Occupied households [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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