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Censos de Población y Vivienda 1962 - IPUMS Subset

Ecuador, 1962
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ECU_1962_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Departamento de los Censos Nacionales, Minnesota Population Center
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Type of dwelling (EC1962A_0028)

Data file: ECU1962-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 110
End: 111
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Building type
[Refers to items I and II.]




I. Private (Family)

[] 01 House
[] 02 Villa
[] 03 Mediagua (small unit with sloped roof)
[] 04 Shack (covacha)
[] 05 Rustic cabin (choza)
[] 06 Rancho (poor construction possibly with cane or straw roof)
[] 07 Other ____ (specify)


II. Non-family

[] 11 Hotel, boarding house, inn, etc.
[] 12 Hospitals, asylums, etc.
[] 13 Convents, dormitories, etc.
[] 14 Prisons, reformatories
[] 15 Barracks
[] 16 Worker's camps
[] 17 Other ____ (specify)
Categories
Value Category
1 House
2 Villa
3 Mediagua (small construction with sloped roof)
4 Shack
5 Rustic cabin
6 Rancho (poor construction possibly with a cane straw roofing)
7 Other
11 Hotel, boarding house, inn, etc.
12 Hospitals, asylums, etc.
13 Convents, dormitories, etc.
14 Prisons, reformatories
15 Barracks
16 Worker"s camps
17 Other
98 Unknown
99 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
Type of building. For the purposes of the census, we give the names:


a) House, to any building made of permanent materials, such as: concrete, brick, adobe, wood, etc., and which has a floor made of wood, stone tile or brick, and a ceiling;

b) Villa, to any building like the previous one and which has a garden at the entrance to the structure.

c) "Mediagua" (small construction with sloped roof), to any building of only one floor, with walls made of adobe or adobón, without a ceiling and with an earth floor.

d) Shack (covacha), to any building of only one floor, made of cane or a mixture of sticks, cane and mud, without a ceiling and with a floor made of cane or earth;

e) Rustic cabin (choza), to any building that has adobe or straw walls, an earth floor, and a straw roof;

f) Rancho, to a building that is generally raised off the ground with piles or posts, has a floor made of cane or logs, walls made of cane and covered by palm branches or by some other type of plant (bijao [tropical plant with leaves like those of a banana tree], cadi [a type of large Ecuadorian palm tree] or cade, cane leaves, etc); and

g) Other, is any lightweight building, different from those previously mentioned, such as shacks, tents, palm-tree huts, etc.


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Dwelling. Is any, fixed or mobile, structurally separate or independent premises or enclosure that has been built or made, converted or prepared for the purpose of permanently or temporarily housing a census household.

Family dwelling. Is made up of a room or group of rooms meant to be used as a dwelling or domicile by a census family.

Non-family dwelling. Is a room or group of rooms that are used as housing for a group of generally unrelated people who live together and who make up a non-family group, such as: reformatories, convents, hotels, orphanages, work camps, and other similar housing premises.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of dwelling.
Universe
Households in which a head was sampled

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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