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VI National Population and Housing Census, 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 1981
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DOM_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), IPUMS
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Hot water heater (DO1981A_WATHEAT)

Data file: DOM1981_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 240
End: 240
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
24. Appliances
<br />Which of the following appliances does this household have?</p>

<p>Heater</p>
<div class="i1">[] Electric<br />[] Non-electric<br />[] Does not have</div><div class="i2">Quantity<br />[] 1<br />[] 2</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Electric
2 Non-electric
3 None
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 24: Appliances</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Which of the following appliances does this household have?</span></p>

<p>The appliances for this question are read, one by one; if the household has the appliance, the circle is filled in according to whether it is electric or not.</p>

<p>If the household does not have the appliance, the circle in the corresponding column is filled in.</p>

<p>For <span class="em">quantity</span>, the circle corresponding to the number of appliances of the same type owned by the household is filled in. If in any case there are more than 3, the circle 3 is filled in.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the dwelling has a hot water heater.
Universe
Dominican Republic 1981: Occupied dwellings [discrepanices: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Appliances, Mechanicals, Other Amenities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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