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1971 National Census of Dwellings and Population - IPUMS Subset

Nicaragua, 1971
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NIC_1971_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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Year of construction (NI1971A_YRBUILT)

Data file: NIC1971_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 212
End: 213
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="NI71A046"><span class="em">15. Year of construction</span><br /><br />When was the construction of the building completed?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 One year ago or less (from the date of the census)<br />____ If more than one year ago (from the date of the census) fill in the year</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 Within one year of the census
02 1965 - 1969
03 1960 - 1964
04 1955 - 1959
05 1950 - 1954
06 1945 - 1949
07 1940 - 1944
08 Before 1940
09 Unknown
99 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="NI71A046"><span class="em">Question #15</span><br /><br /><span class="em">Year of construction</span><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">a. How to carry out the investigation</span><br />The purpose of this topic is to investigate, on one hand, the number of buildings or dwellings whose construction was finished between March of 1970 and April of 1971; or "One year or less before the census date". The other item investigated is the number of buildings whose construction was finished previous to March of 1970.<br /><br /><span class="em">b. How to record the data</span><br />If the dwelling's construction was completed between March of 1970 and April of 1971, an "X" is marked in box 1</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 36]</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">located after the sentence "One year or less before the census date". If the dwelling was completed before March of 1970, the year of construction is written in the space provided.<br /><br /><span class="em">c. Example:</span></div><br /><br />[These instructions refer to a graph of question 15 on the census form]<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the dwelling's year of construction.
Universe
Nicaragua 1971: Private occupied households [discrepancies: type I 0.1%, type II 0.1%]

concept

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