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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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Occupancy (UY1975A_TENURE)

Data file: URY1975_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 130
End: 130
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="UY75A042"><span class="em">B. Condition of occupation of the dwelling</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Occupied<br />[] 2 Occupied with absent inhabitants (Only fill out section D)<br />[] 3 Seasonally unoccupied (Only fill out section D)<br />[] 4 Other unoccupied (for rent, sale, etc.) (Only fill out section D)<br />[] 5 Other (specify) ____ (Only fill out section D)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Occupied
2 Unoccupied, inhabitants absent
3 Unoccupied, seasonal
4 Unoccupied, other reason
5 Other
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
<svar a="all" v="UY75A042"><span class="em">B. Condition of occupation of the dwelling</span><br />66. You should put special care in registering all the dwellings of your sector occupied or not.<br /><br />67. "Occupied dwelling" (box 1) is one where at least one person spent the night, the night before the "Day of the Census". It can be occupied by one or more Census homes.<br /><br />68. If upon arriving at a dwelling, it is inhabited by its inhabitants, you will mark in the Census document.<br /><br />[Below the text are two charts; one has the box "Occupied" marked]<br /><br />If they are not in a dwelling, find out from the neighbors what the true situation is. If they inform you that the occupants of this dwelling will return the next day, you will register said dwelling as occupied and you will return.<br /><br />70. "Unoccupied dwelling" is one in which no one has spent the night the night before the "Day of the Census".<br /><br />71. "Dwelling occupied with absent inhabitants" is a habitual residence of a home, whose members, nevertheless, did not spend the night in it the night before the "Day of the Census".<br /><br />72. "Seasonally unoccupied" is a sporadic dwelling or lodging of a home. Typical cases are rest houses and summer homes.<br /><br />"Other unoccupied" are dwellings that are for sale, for rent, in litigation, etc.<br /><br />For the cases of "Unoccupied dwelling" you will fill out only the requested information in Sections "B. Condition of occupation of the dwelling" and "D. Type of dwelling".<br /><br />Remember that an unoccupied dwelling should remain registered in the control sheet. Fill out columns 1 to 7 and write down in "Observations": "Unoccupied".<br /><br />Any building under construction in which anyone [slept] the night before the "Day of the Census" will be considered a dwelling. If in a building under construction no one [slept] the night before the "Day of the Census", do not register it in the control sheet nor in the document.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the occupancy of the dwelling.
Universe
Uruguay 1975: All households

concept

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