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XIV National Population and III Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1973
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COL_1973_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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How dwelling was acquired (CO1973A_FINANCE)

Data file: COL1973_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 208
End: 208
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CO73A034"><span class="em">11. Financing (only for owners)</span><br /><br />How did you acquire this house?<br /><div class="i1">Loan</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Credit institution<br />[] 2 Lending/mortgage institution<br />[] 3 Other official entity<br />[] 4 Private body</div><br /><div class="i1">[] 5 Private resources (inheritance, pension etc.)<br />[] 6 Other</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Credit institution
2 Lending/mortgage institution
3 Other official entity
4 Private body
5 Private resources (inheritance,pension etc.)
6 Other
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
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="CO73A034"><span class="em">Question No. 11. Financing</span><br /><br />Fill out this question only when 1 or 2 were answered in question 10.<br /><br />[Below the text is a form.]<br /><br />1) Read the question and its alternatives in their order; wait for the response of the interviewed person and mark "x" in the corresponding box.<br /><br />2) If you find that a dwelling was financed with loans of more that one entity, mark "x" in the box corresponding to the entity that contributes the largest resources.<br /><br />3) When the contribution has been from loans from two entities in equal parts, mark "x" in the box of the alternative that corresponds to the entity that the person considers most important.<br /><br />4) When a dwelling was financed with loans of any entity and with their own resources mark "x" in the box corresponding to the alternative that has contributed the most capital. If it was financed in equal parts between loans and their own resources, mark "x" in the box corresponding to the information that the person considers most important.<br /><br />5) When a dwelling has been acquired by other means different than the alternatives of the form, mark "x" in the box "others".<br /><br />6) In no case mark two alternatives.<br /><br /><span class="em">Loan</span>: is contribution of money of any entity, awarded above a wage, savings, payments, or inheritance, to buy a dwelling. In this case the buyer acquires a debt of mortgage with which the loan is paid.<br /><br /><span class="em">Own resources</span>: When a person contributes directly from their capital, savings, payments, etc. to buy a dwelling.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates how the dwelling was acquired.
Universe
Colombia 1973: Households where the dwelling is owned by the occupants [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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