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VI Censo de Población y V de Vivienda, 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Ecuador, 2001
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ECU_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Dwelling used for economic activity (EC2001A_ACTDWELL)

Data file: ECU2001_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 218
End: 218
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="EC01A073 EC01A074">7. In this household, is part of the dwelling used for an economic activity?<br /><div class="i1">[ ] 1 Yes; what is the principal activity of the establishment? Specify: ____<br />[ ] 2 No</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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="EC01A073 EC01A074"><span class="em">Question 7.- In this household do they use part of the dwelling for some economic activity?</span><br /><br />[There is a picture of question 7 from this section of the enumeration form.]<br /><br />If two or more households live in the dwelling, the information should refer to the part of the dwelling that the household you are investigating uses.<br /><br />When the dwelling that this household uses is shared in order to carry out some economic activity, mark the <span class="em">yes</span> box (1) and then in the appropriate space record the <span class="em">principal economic activity </span>that is carried out. Examples: weaving by hand, tailoring, shoe repair, sale and preparation of food, etc.<br /><br />Examples: making fabrics of wool, "<span class="lang">paja toquilla</span>" [a kind of straw that comes from the <span class="lang">toquilla</span> tree, a species of palm] (bags, ropes, hats, etc.), tailoring, shoe repair, wood carvings, sale and preparation of food, sale of agricultural products, sale of cheeses, raising animals, hairstyling, etc.<br /><br />When the dwelling is used exclusively for living, mark <span class="em">no</span>, box (2).<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the dwelling is used for any economic activity by the household.
Universe
Ecuador 2001: Occupied private dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

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