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1996 Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Fiji, 1996
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FJI_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Fiji Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Living quarters (FJ1996A_DWTYPE)

Data file: FJI1996_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 178
End: 178
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="FJ96A028">H1. Type of living quarters<br />Does this household live in<br /><div class="i1">[] 1. A one family house detached from any other house<br />[] 2. A one family house attached to one or more houses<br />[] 3. A building with two or more apartments<br />[] 4. A building with two or more households which share a kitchen or toilet<br />[] 5. A dwelling attached to a shop or other non-residential building<br />[] 6. A lodging house<br />[] 7. A hotel<br />[] 8. More than one of the above, or other, specify ______</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 One family house detached from any other house
2 One family attached to one or more houses
3 Building with two or more apartments
4 Building with two or more households which share a kitchen or toilet
5 Dwelling attached to a shop or other non-residential building
6 A lodging house
8 Other
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="FJ96A028">182. Question H1 - Type of living quarters<br /><br />1. A one family house detached from any other house is a dwelling housing a single household and which is not joined to any other dwelling by one or more walls and is not in a building used also as a shop or a factory.<br /><br />2. A one family house attached to one or more houses is a dwelling which shares a common wall with another dwelling.<br /><br />3. A building housing two or more apartments may be a block of flats, an apartment building or a set of town houses.<br /><br />4. A building with two or more households which shares a kitchen or toilet is self-explanatory.<br /><br />5. A dwelling attached to a shop or other non-residential building. People may live in dwellings made above their shops or is attached to factories and workshops.<br /><br />6. A lodging house is like a hostel where people either share rooms or have separate rooms but share either cooking or washing facilities.<br /><br />7. A hotel as separate from a lodging house is self-explanatory.<br /><br />8. Other types of living quarters - caravans or mobile houses, ships, tents. When living quarters do not fit into any of the above 7 categories, describe them, after putting in other category.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of living quarters.
Universe
Fiji 1996: All households

concept

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