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XVI National Population and V de Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1993 - 1994
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COL_1993_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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Fuel used for cooking (CO1993A_FUELCOOK)

Data file: COL1993_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 196
End: 196
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CO93A027"><span class="em">17. What is the principal cooking fuel?</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Electricity<br />[] 2 Petroleum gasoline, kerosene, <span class="lang">cocinol</span> [locally available cooking fuel]<br />[] 3 Gas<br />[] 4 Wood<br />[] 5 Coal<br />[] 6 Waste materials</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Electricity
2 Petroleum gasoline, kerosene, cocinol
3 Gas
4 Wood
5 Charcoal
6 Waste materials
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="CO93A027"><span class="em">17. What is the principal cooking fuel?</span><br /><br />Explain to the interviewed person that they should select the alternative that is used most frequently.<br /><br />[Below the text is a form.]<br /><br />When in a household more than one source of energy is used for cooking, insist in determining which is the most frequent. Take into account the following criteria:<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Electricity</span><br />When an oven or stove works with electric energy.<br /><br /><span class="em">Petroleum gasoline, kerosene, cocinol [locally available cooking fuel]</span><br />When an oven or stove works with some type of liquid fuel derived from petroleum.<br /><br /><span class="em">Gas</span><br />When an oven or stove works with gas from pipette or supplied from an outside system.<br /><br /><span class="em">Coal</span><br />Choose this option when a household uses mineral or vegetal coal.<br /><br /><span class="em">Discarded material</span><br />When the source of heat comes from the direct combustion of trash or any material different than the previous ones.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the principal cooking fuel used in the household.
Universe
Colombia 1993: Occupied dwellings with people present at enumeration [discrepancies: type I 0.6%; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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