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2000 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Philippines, 2000
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PHL_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Statistics Office, IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Acquisition of housing unit (PH2000A_ACQUIRE)

Data file: PHL2000_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 223
End: 223
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="PH00A038"><span class="em">H6. Acquisition of housing unit</span><br /><span class="em">How did you acquire this housing unit?</span><br />(Please cross out one of the selections below)<br /><br /><div class="i1">[] Purchased<br />[] Constructed by the owner/occupants with or without help of<br />friends/relatives<br />[] Constructed by hired/skilled worker<br />[] Constructed by an organized contractor<br />[] Inherited (Skip to H8)<br />[] Others (lottery, gift) (Skip to H8)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Purchased
2 Constructed by the owner/occupants
3 Constructed by hired/skilled workers
4 Constructed by an organized contractor
5 Inherited
6 Others (lottery, gift)
9 Unknown
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
<span class="h3">H6 Acquisition of housing unit</span></p>

<p>Ask the question in H6, "How did you acquire this housing unit?" only if the entry in H5 is Owned/being amortized. Mark the circle which describes how the household acquired the housing unit.</p>

<p>The different categories for this item and their corresponding codes are:</p>
<div class="i1">1 Purchased<br />2 Constructed by the owner/occupants with or without the help of friends/relatives<br />3 Constructed by hired/skilled workers - The owner of the housing unit took charge of purchasing construction materials and hiring construction workers and directly supervised the construction of the housing unit<br />4 Constructed by an organized contractor - The owner entered into a contract with a general contractor for the latter to supply either labor only or both labor and materials<br />5 Inherited<br />6 Others (lottery, gift)</div><p>If the answer in this question is Inherited or Others (lottery, gift), skip to H8.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates how the housing unit was acquired (e.g. purchased, constructed by hired workers).
Universe
Philippines 2000: Households that own or are amotizing their housing unit [discrepancies: none]

concept

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