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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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Rooms in the dwelling (EC1990A_ROOMS)

Data file: ECU1990_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 196
End: 197
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="EC90A032">9. How many rooms does the dwelling have?<br /><div class="i1">(Not including kitchen or bathroom) ____</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
00 NIU (not in universe)
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
13 13
14 14
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="EC90A032"><span class="em">Question 9. How many rooms are there in the dwelling? Do not include kitchen or bathroom.</span><br /><br />A room is the space or bedroom separated by fixed walls of any material and that is used as a bedroom, living room, dining room, study, recreation, etc.<br /><br />Ask the question in the textual form and immediately indicate that this excludes the kitchen, bathroom(s), corridors, hallways, and the rooms that are totally destined for uses other than habitation. For example: garages, offices, storage areas, workshops, stores, etc. Write the total numbers of rooms in the dwelling that you are enumerating in Arabic numbers in the corresponding space.<br /><br />In the case that you find one room in which the inhabitants sleep, cook, and eat, register the dwelling as one room only.<br /><br /><div class="i1">9. How many rooms are there in the dwelling? (Do not include kitchen or bathroom)</div><br /><div class="i2">_____ Number</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the total number of rooms in the dwelling (not including the kitchen or bathrooms.)
Universe
Ecuador 1990: Private occupied dwellings with persons present during enumeration [discrepancies: none]

concept

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