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Censo Nacional de Población y Viviendas 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Paraguay, 1992
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PRY_1992_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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General Directorate of Statistics, Surveys, and Censuses (DGEEC), Minnesota Population Center
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Type of dwelling (PY1992A_0032)

Data file: PRY1992-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 129
End: 130
Width: 2
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Section II. Dwelling information



1. Dwelling type

A. Private dwelling

[] 11 House
[] 12 Farm (rancho)
[] 13 Apartment or suite/floor in a building
[] 14 Rented room
[] 15 Improvised dwelling
[] 16 Other ____


B. Collective dwelling (group quarters)

[] 21 Hotel or boardinghouse
[] 22 Boarding school
[] 23 Military or police post
[] 24 Hospital
[] 25 Asylum (or old-age home?)
[] 26 Prison or reformatory
[] 27 Religious community
[] 28 Other ____
Categories
Value Category
11 House
12 Rancho (poor rural dwelling)
13 Apartment or flat
14 Rented room paid in cash, in kind, or with service
15 Improvised
16 Other private dwelling
21 Hotel, inn, or boarding house
22 Boarding school
23 Military or police barracks
24 Hospital
25 Retirement home
26 Prison
27 Religious community
28 Other collective dwelling
31 Special dwelling
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
Section II. Information about the dwelling


The information for this section will be completed for the single household. In the case that there is more than one census household within a dwelling, you will complete this section only for the first household.

This section is comprised of thirteen questions.

Remember: You should mark only one answer for each answer.


Question 1: Type of dwelling: We distinguish two types of dwellings:

1. Type of dwelling

A. Private dwelling

[] House
[] Rural ranch house
[] Apartment or flat
[] Rental room
[] Improvised dwelling
[] Other _____


B. Collective dwelling

[] Hotel or pension
[] Educational boarding school
[] Military or police barracks
[] Hospital
[] Asylum
[] Jail or reformatory
[] Religious community
[] Other _____




A. Private dwelling: is also classified by:

- House: This is the one that is built with prepared materials. It has direct exit to the street, road, path, etc. and constitutes a single dwelling.

- Rural ranch house: Dwelling with an exit to the exterior. The ranch house, in general, has adobe walls, dirt floor, straw, palm, or bark roof.

- Apartment or flat: This is the dwelling that forms part of a building of two or more floors and has access to the street through a hallway, corridor, stairway and/or elevator.

- Rental room: When the dwelling occupies, in independent manner, a room of various similar rooms that exist in a building or along a patio. Generally, they have common use of sanitary services.

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- Improvised dwelling: When the dwelling is built with discarded materials (cardboard, straw [woven straw], cans, tarps, plastic, cane, packaging, etc.)

- Other: Specify
In this category we include the spaces that are not destined for human habitation, but that are used as spaces for human habitation on the census day.
Example: Factories, stores, businesses, offices, garages, boats, sheds, old chassis, tent, guard house, stable, refugee camp, etc.

The refugee camps will use a form for each household with correlative numbers.

B. Collective dwelling: These are also classified like this:

-Hotel or pension
-Educational boarding school
-Military or police barracks
-Hospital
-Asylum
-Jail or reformatory
-Religious community
-Other


Also considered as a collective dwelling are the groups of six or more renters who live in private dwellings.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of private or collective dwelling occupied by the household.
Universe
All households

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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