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XVI National Population and V de Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1993 - 1994
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Reference ID
COL_1993_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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  • COL1993_PHC-H-H.dat
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Number of rooms (CO1993A_ROOMS)

Data file: COL1993_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 191
End: 192
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CO93A023"><span class="em">13. How many rooms does the dwelling have access to?</span><br /><div class="i1">_ _ Number of rooms (include the living room and dining room. Exclude the kitchen, bathroom, and garage)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
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99 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="CO93A023"><span class="em">13. How many rooms does this household have access to?</span><br /><br />Ask for the number of sleeping quarters or rooms used by the members of the household.<br /><br />[Below the text is a form.]<br /><br /><span class="em">Include</span> rooms that the household uses as living room, dining room, bedrooms, study and those used to work or guard household equipment of materials.<br /><br /><span class="em">Do not include</span> the bath or kitchen or garage. If the last is used for a different function than guarding cars, you should count it as a room.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the number of rooms in the dwelling.
Universe
Colombia 1993: Occupied dwellings with people present at enumeration [discrepancies: type I 0.6%; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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