XV Censo Nacional de Población y IV de Vivienda - IPUMS Subset
Chile, 1982
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Reference ID
CHL_1982_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas, IPUMS
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Dwelling type (CL1982A_DWTYPE)
Data file: CHL1982_PHC-H-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
228
End:
229
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CL82A057">2. Type of Housing Unit<br /><br />A. Single family Housing Unit<br /><div class="i1">1. House<br />2. Apartment<br />3. Improvised hut made of light construction material (<span class="lang">mejora, emergencia</span>)<br />4. Tenement housing<br />5. Shanty, improvised dwelling <span class="lang">(callampa)</span><br />6. Shack in a farm (<span class="lang">rancho</span>), Indian dwelling, rustic huts<br />7. Mobile (tent, car, etc)<br />8. Other (specify)</div><br /><br />B. Collective Housing Unit<br /><div class="i1">9. Guest or boarding house (residencial), pension<br />10. Hotel, Motel, Inn <br />11. Institution (Hospital, Boarding school, Convent, Barracks, etc.)<br />12. Other (specify)</div><br /><br />-If the housing unit is unoccupied and you have completed questions 1 and 2, end the interview.<br /><br />-If the housing unit is collective, continue on to section III: Persons in the Home.<br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 01 | House |
| 02 | Apartment |
| 03 | Improvised hut made of light construction material (Mejora, Emergencia) |
| 04 | Room in a high-density slum dwelling |
| 05 | Improvised dwelling |
| 06 | Farm or shack |
| 07 | Mobile |
| 08 | Other private |
| 09 | Residence, guesthouse |
| 10 | Hotel, motel |
| 11 | Hospital, innmate |
| 12 | Other group quarter |
| 13 | Travelers |
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="CL82A057"><span class="h3">Type of dwelling</span><br /><br />The characteristics that correspond to some types of dwellings mentioned in the questionnaire are the following:<br /><br />A. Private Dwelling:<br /><br />House: permanent building; separate and independent with a direct entrance from the street, garden, or lot (cottage, bungalow, hut, etc.)<br /><br />Apartment: a dwelling located in a permanently constructed building; has a separate entrance from a hallway, stairway, or other common space in the building, or direct access from the street. The occupants can come and go without passing through a premises occupied by others.<br /><br />Tenement dwelling: is a room or group of rooms that make up an independent dwelling. <span class="pg">[p. 12] </span>They are located along a common-use hallway and have shared facilities. Also considered within this alternative are buildings rented completely by rooms or groups of rooms and which have shared facilities.<br /><br />Squatter settlement: is a temporary building made from waste materials (cardboard, tin, waste construction materials). They make up groups of dwellings located in uncultivated areas belonging to others where there are neither urbanization nor hygienic conditions for living there. It is also possible to find squatter dwellings in isolated areas or constructed close to other dwelling groups.<br /><br />Shack, rustic hut, cabin: is typically a rural building, separate or independent, made of light materials (clay with straw, reeds, sticks and mud, dried stone [<span class="lang">pirca</span>], etc.).<br /><br />B. Collective Dwelling<br /><br />Boardinghouse, Guesthouse: has the same structural characteristics as private dwellings.<br /><br />Boardinghouses and guesthouses with a municipal license, regardless of the number of boarders, will always be included in this category.<br /><br />Private dwellings with 6 or more boarders will also be included here.<br /><br />If the dwelling has 5 boarders or fewer, the proper option within group A. Private Dwelling should be marked.<br /><br />If the dwelling is found unoccupied and you have finished questions 1 and 2, end the interview.<br /><br />If the dwelling is collective, complete only questions 1 and 2 of this section and continue on to<br /></svar>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates dwelling type.
Universe
Chile 1982: All households
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD | IPUMS |