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XII General Population and Housing Census, 2000 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2000
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MEX_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Age of the dwelling (MX2000A_DWAGE)

Data file: MEX2000_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 227
End: 227
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="MX00A029">15. Age<br /><br />How long ago was this dwelling built?<br /><br />Read all of the options until you receive an affirmative response.<br />Circle only one answer.<br /><br /><div class="i1">1 Less than one year<br />2 One to five years<br />3 Six to ten years<br />4 Eleven to twenty years<br />5 Twenty-one to thirty years<br />6 Thirty-one to fifty years<br />7 Over fifty years</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Less than one year
2 From 1 to 5 years
3 From 6 to 10 years
4 From 11 to 20 years
5 From 21 to 30 years
6 From 31 to 50 years
7 More than 50 years
9 Not specified
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="MX00A029"><span class="em">15. Age</span><br /><br />When there is doubt, or they respond "I do not know," help the informant to obtain an approximate date, such as by mentioning an important event, a historic date, the birth of a child, or something else.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates age of dwelling.
Universe
Mexico 2000: All households

concept

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