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1995 National Census. Seventh Census of Population, Third Census of Dwellings. - IPUMS Subset

Nicaragua, 1995
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NIC_1995_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Type of dwelling (NI1995A_DWTYPE)

Data file: NIC1995_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 174
End: 175
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="NI95A027"><span class="em">Type of dwelling</span><br />1. Private or collective dwellings<br /><div class="i1">If you marked one of the boxes for collective dwelling, continue to Section III.<br />[Collective dwelling is defined as choices 08-13]<br /><br />[] 01 House<br />[] 02 Country house (<span class="lang">Quinta</span>)<br />[] 03 Room in a tenement<br />[] 04 Hut or shack<br />[] 05 Improvised dwelling (rubble, discarded materials, etc.)<br />[] 06 Apartment or flat in a house or building<br />[] 07 Premise used as a dwelling (warehouse, garages, etc.)<br />[] 08 Hotels, hostels and guest houses<br />[] 09 Jails and juvenile detention centers<br />[] 10 Hospitals and sanitariums<br />[] 11 Asylums and orphanages<br />[] 12 Convents and boarding schools<br />[] 13 Other type of collective dwelling</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 House
02 Country house
03 Room in tenement housing
04 Rural ranch house or shack
05 Improvised dwelling (rubble, discarded materials, etc.)
06 Apartment or flat in a house or building
07 Commercial site used as a dwelling (warehouse, garage, etc.)
09 Jail or juvenile detention center
11 Asylums or orphanages
12 Convents or boarding schools
13 Other type of collective dwelling
99 Unknown
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 v="NI95A027 NI95A028"><span class="em">Concept of dwelling:</span><br />This is all places delimited by walls and roof where one or more persons habitually reside, which means that they sleep, prepare food, and are protected from the elements. It also means that the persons can enter or leave the dwelling without passing through another dwelling, using direct access from the street or through a corridor. You should be aware that there are dwellings with one front but in the interior there can be other dwellings, which you will have to enumerate separately.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="NI95A027"><span class="em">Type of dwelling:</span><br />You will understand type of dwelling as the form in which each of them is occupied. For the purpose of the census, they are divided into two large groups: private or collective.<br /><br /><span class="em">Question 1</span><br />Private dwelling:<br />This is every dwelling that is occupied by one or more groups of persons or one person, linked or not by family ties. This type of dwelling should be structurally separate and independent. Private dwellings are also classified into the following types:<br /><div class="i1">01. House<br />This is a habitation unit that has a solid construction, made to be inhabited permanently.<br /><br />02. Country house <span class="lang">(quinta)</span><br />This is a habitation unit that has a solid construction, made to inhabit permanently, and generally built in the outside of the city or in a rural area.<br /><br />03. Room in a tenement<br />This is a habitation unit in a rooming house that constitutes an independent dwelling. The rooms are located along a common corridor and generally have some common services.<br /><br />04. Hut or shack<br />This is any habitation built with rustic materials, generally tending to have a roof of palm, straw, etc. of limited durability. These are very common in the rural zones.<br /><br />05. Improvised dwelling<br />This is a habitation unit built with discarded materials, such as cardboard, pieces of metal, plastic, scraps of all types, etc. This will include dwellings that are semi-destroyed by the earthquake, the war, and those in spontaneous settlements that have these characteristics and are occupied on the date of the census. Also this includes mobile homes such as boats, motor homes, etc.<br /><br />06. Apartment or flat in a house or building<br />This is a habitation unit located in a building of permanent construction that has an independent entrance through a corridor or stairway with direct access from the street, that permits the inhabitants to enter and leave without passing through spaces occupied by other persons, and that generally have independent services.<br /><br />07. Premise used as dwelling: (warehouse, garages, etc.)<br />This is a commercial space or construction that was not originally destined to be inhabited by persons, but that is occupied for this purpose on the date of the census. This could be a warehouse, workshop, store, abandoned railroad cars or buses, etc.</div><br /><br />Collective dwelling:<br />This is a habitation or building where a group of persons reside without family ties among them and who share the habitation for reasons of housing, health, studies, religion, old age, orphans, etc.<br /><br />Among the collective dwellings we include:<br /><div class="i1">08. Hotels, hostels and guest houses<br /><br />09. Jails and juvenile detention centers<br /><br />10. Hospitals and sanitariums<br /><br />11. Asylums and orphanages<br /><br />12. Convents and boarding schools<br /><br />13. Other type of collective dwelling</div><br /><br />Observations:<br /><div class="i1">a) The dwellings that house five or fewer guests or renters as habitual residents, for the purpose of the census, should be considered private dwellings.<br /><br />b) The enumerators will enumerate all of the collective dwellings except the military institutions and the prisons, which will be enumerated by members of the Ministry of State and Defense.<br /><br />c) In every collective dwelling you should investigate if within them, there is a dwelling for the caretaker, supervisor or administrator, or of any other person who does not share the common life of the rest of the residents and has a dwelling with his/her own family. In this case, these persons will be considered as residents of a private dwelling, and therefore you will complete a separate form.<br /><br />d) The collective dwellings will be enumerated as if they were private dwellings, which means that you will fill in all of the form, with the exception of "Characteristics of the dwelling" and the question regarding family relationships.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of dwelling.
Universe
Nicaragua 1995: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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