National Population and Housing Census 2009

Vanuatu, 2009

Reference ID

VUT_2009_PHC_v01_M

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Vanuatu National Statstics Office

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H16. Land Tenure (H16)

Data file: HOUSING

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 53

End: 53

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

H16. Land tenure

Categories

Value	Category
1	Customary
2	Rural Lease
3	Urban Lease
4	Occupy with informal arrangments
5	Others

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

Only 1 box should be marked
This question only applies to those who own the houses are owned in H14. This question is designed to determine if the land in which the household is built is customary or leasehold (urban or rural). It may be occupied with informal arrangements, in which case mark box 3 or occupied with informal arrangements which corresponding to box 4. If some other arrangement, mark box 5.

Customary land tenure refers to individual and communal ownership, mostly found in rural areas. The urban areas have been declared state land which means that the government owns the land. Leases were issued from these two types of land ownership is usually for a period of not more than 75 years. Commonly in rural areas the land owner, community, or family leases their land.

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