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1999 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 1999
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VNM_1999_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 1999 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., IPUMS
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Type of ownership (VN1999A_OWNERSHP)

Data file: VNM1999_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 149
End: 149
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="VN99A014"><br />5. Who is the holder of this (main) house/flat?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Self-owned<br />[] 2 Hired from government<br />[] 3 Hired/borrowed from private party<br />[] 4 Collective/religion<br />[] 5 Joint state and individual<br />[] 9 Not clear about ownership</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Private
2 Government - rented
3 Private - rented
4 Collective
5 Private and government
8 Not reported
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="VN99A014"><span class="em"> Question 5:</span> This (main) house/apartment belongs to whom?<br />The ownership of the house is categorized according to the following 6 groups:<br /><br /><div class="i1">1) Private houses of the households: These include houses/apartments that the household has built, bought, inherited, or been given, and currently occupies.<br /><br />2) Houses that are rented from the government: These include houses/apartments for which the households have contracts to rent from the government, based on the time and price that both sides have agreed to. Also included are houses/apartments the government built and distributed to officials and workers for use as residences.<br /><br />Houses/apartments that the officers rent or lease from the government, organizations, enterprises etc., but have now been rented or sold at a discount to other officials, are also considered to be "Houses that are rented from the government."<br /><br />3) Houses that are rented from private parties: These include houses/apartments that are rented or borrowed from private parties and are actually lived in, based on the time and price both sides agree to.<br /><br />4) Houses that belong to groups/religious groups: These include houses/apartments that are built by groups and corporations, by religious groups or managed by religious groups, and are distributed to members of these organizations to live and actually lived in.<br /><br />5) Houses that are jointly built by the government and people: These include houses/apartments that were partially built with government funds and private capital, and these were distributed to households that contributed and are being used as residences.<br /><br />6) Houses with unknown owners: These include houses/apartments that do not belong to groups 1 to 5 above, houses/apartments taken from the government/groups/individuals, and houses over which people are fighting to gain ownership and are under arbitration.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of ownership of the dwelling.
Universe
Vietnam 1999: Durable dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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