Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1988

Reference ID

EGY_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Population Council [Egypt] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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Dwelling has electrical connections (B_ELCONNECT)

Data file: EGY1988-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 312

End: 313

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

040. Does the dwelling unit have electrical connections in all or only part of the dwelling unit?

YES, IN ALL 1
YES, IN PART 2
HAS NO ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS 3

Value	Category
96	Non-resident
10	No electrical connections
20	Yes, has electrical connections
21	Yes, full electrical connections
22	Yes, but only in part
98	Missing

Description

Definition

ELCONNECT indicates whether the dwelling has electrical connections or power from an electrical grid.

The information in ELCONNECT is taken from the household record and applies to household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors (coded "2") using the following variables:

RESIDENT when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis;
HHRESIDENT when household members are the unit of analysis;
RESIDENTMN when men are the unit of analysis.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Housing Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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