V Censo de Población y IV de Vivienda, 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Ecuador, 1990

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ECU_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS

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Language spoken in home (EC1990A_LANG)

Data file: ECU1990_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 215

End: 215

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="EC90A049">8. What language do the members of this household habitually speak among themselves?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Indigenous language ____ (specify)<br />[] 2 Spanish<br />[] 3 Foreign language ____ (specify)</div><br /><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	Indigenous language
2	Spanish
3	Foreign language

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="EC90A049"><span class="em">Question 8. What language do the members of the household speak to each other?</span><br /><br />This question can have only one answer. In the case that more than one language is spoken in the household, write the one that the members of the household use to speak to each other. If the answer is a native language, box 1, or foreign language, box 3, do not forget to ask what language they speak.<br /><br /><div class="i1">What language do the members of the household speak to each other?<br />[ ] 1 Native language (specify) _____<br />[ ] 2 Spanish<br />[ ] 3 Foreign language (specify) _____</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the language that household members habitually speak to each other.

Universe

Ecuador 1990: Private occupied dwellings with persons present during enumeration [discrepancies: type I: none, type II: trace]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Other Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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