Home / Central Data Catalog / DOM_1981_PHC_V01_M_V7.5_A_IPUMS / variable [H]
central

VI National Population and Housing Census, 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 1981
Get Microdata
Reference ID
DOM_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), IPUMS
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
Dec 22, 2014
Last modified
Sep 03, 2025
Page views
18659
Downloads
734

Summer home or occasional use (DO1981A_DWUSE)

Data file: DOM1981_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 206
End: 206
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
9. Is this a summer home or for occasional use?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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
<span class="em">Question 9: Is the dwelling a summer home or for occasional use?</span></p>

<p>Occupied or not, this information is collected and the corresponding circle is filled in.</p>

<p>A summer home is used for vacations or on the weekends.</p>

<p>An occasional use dwelling is used to be inhabited during certain seasons, usually related to work.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the dwelling is used as a summer home or for occasional use.
Universe
Dominican Republic 1981: Dwellings with independent exit [discrepanices: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Other Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Back to Catalog