1999 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 1999

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Reference ID

VNM_1999_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 1999 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., IPUMS

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Have electricity (VN1999A_ELECTRIC)

Data file: VNM1999_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 154

End: 154

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="VN99A017">7. Does your household use electricity for lighting?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Having electricity<br />[] 2 Not having</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No
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

<svar a="all" v="VN99A017"><span class="em"> Question 7:</span> Do you use electricity for lighting?<br />The household uses electricity for lighting from such sources as the national power grid, the locally managed power grid, electricity that comes from local power generators, personal power generators or small family hydroelectric station; and the time that the household uses the electricity is 15 days or more in the month before the investigation. Households that only use batteries or solar energy for lighting are not considered to "use electricity for lighting".<br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the house had electricity service.

Universe

Vietnam 1999: Households with a house to live in [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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