Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2006

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Reference ID

LSO_2006_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Cellular phone (LS2006A_CELL)

Data file: LSO2006_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 221

End: 221

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="h2">Section H. Housing characteristics and household possessions</span></p>

<p>64. Possession of one of the following by one of the household members.</p>

<p>D. Possession of cellular phone</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes <br />[] 2 No</div>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No

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

<span class="h2">Part H of the questionnaire</span>
<br />Housing Characteristics and Household Possessions (for the household head)</p>

<p>133. Column 64: Possession of certain assets in the household</p>
<div class="i1">State whether the household possesses a working radio, television, telephone, cell, fridge, bed/mattress, car, scotch cart, internet and computer, or not. A household possesses a 'working' radio, television, telephone, cell, fridge, bed/mattress, car, scotch cart, internet, computer, if at least one member possesses one of the mentioned items and are items present in the household. A radio, television, telephone, cell, fridge, bed/mattress, car, scotch cart, internet, computer are considered to be 'working' if they were 'working' in the past month.</div>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether at least one member of the household possesses a working cellular phone. Working indicates that it worked in the past month.

Universe

Lesotho 2006: All households

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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