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XIV Recenseamento Geral da População e IV Recenseamento Geral da Habitação - IPUMS Subset

Portugal, 2001
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PRT_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Portugal Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Number of rooms (PT2001A_ROOMS)

Data file: PRT2001_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 164
End: 164
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="PT01A034 PT01A035 PT01A036 PT01A037 PT01A038 PT01A040 PT01A039 PT01A041 PT01A033 PT01A031 PT01A032">[Questions 4-18 were asked of persons living in housing units as the place of their usual residence, according to question 3]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="PT01A039 PT01A041 PT01A033 PT01A031 PT01A032">[Questions 11-18 were asked of persons living in a conventional dwelling as the place of their usual residence, according to questions 2, 3]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PT01A041">12. Number of rooms in the dwelling: _ _<br /><div class="i1">Not including kitchen, corridors, halls, bathrooms, verandahs, store room, etc.</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="PT01A041"><span class="em">Question 12 - Number of rooms in the dwelling:</span><br /><div class="i1"><span class="ital">Room</span> means the space in a dwelling, limited by walls, which, for the most part, has an area of at least 4 m2 and a ceiling height of 2 m. Included in the definition of room are bedrooms, dining room and living room, habitable attic and basement rooms, etc.<br /><br /><span class="em">Attention:</span><br />You should <span class="em">Not</span> consider the following as rooms: kitchen (even if used for other purposes), bathroom, pantry, storage room, balcony (even if enclosed by any type of structure), conservatory, hall and corridors. Rooms that are used exclusively for an economic activity should not be counted. For example: in a dwelling consisting of five rooms in which a doctor's surgery occupies two rooms, only three rooms should be counted.</div><br /></svar>
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Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
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2 2
3 3
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9 9+
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.
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<svar a="all" v="PT01A041"><div class="i1"><span class="em">Question 12 - Number of rooms in the dwelling</span></div><br /><div class="i2">By room we understand the space in a dwelling, delimited by walls, having at least 4 square meters and with 2 meters of height on the majority of the space.<br />Even knowing that they can correspond to the definition the following are not counted as rooms:</div><br /><div class="i3">The kitchen;<br />Corridors, balconies;<br />Bathrooms, dispensary, halls;<br />Spaces exclusively destined to economical activities.</div><br /><div class="i2">The rooms that are simultaneously used for an economic activity but not exclusively are counted as rooms in this question.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the number of rooms in the dwelling.
Universe
Portugal 2001: Private households in usual residence in conventional dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

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