XIII Censo General de Población y Vivienda - IPUMS Subset

Venezuela, 2001

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VEN_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Unidad Técnica censal (UTC), IPUMS

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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Type of dwelling (VE2001A_DWTYPE)

Data file: VEN2001_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 202

End: 203

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

<svar a="all" v="VE01A038">1. Type of dwelling <div class="i1">[] A. Family</div> <div class="i2">[] Mansion [] Ranch or primary house on a ranch [] House [] Apartment in building [] Apartment in a ranch, a primary house on a ranch, or a house [] Neighborhood house [attached urban housing] [] Farmhouse [] Refuge [] Other type</div> <div class="i1">[] B. Collective</div> <div class="i2">Code _ _ Total number of persons in the collective dwelling [_ _ _ _ ]</div> <div class="i3">Continue with section VI</div> </svar>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Mansion
02	House with yard/garden
03	House
04	Apartment in a building
05	Apartment in a ranch, a primary house on a ranch, or a house
06	Tenement
07	Hut/shack
08	Refuge
09	Other type
11	Hotels, motels, or boarding houses
12	Student residences
13	Educational and religious institutions
14	Hospitals, long-term care, or psychiatric centers
15	Homes for disabled and welfare institutions
16	Other assistance institutions for children, youth, or adults
17	Penitentiary institutions
18	Military institutions
19	Other type of collective dwelling

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="VE01A038">1.1. Type of dwelling: A) Family [dwelling] Every structure meant to be the shelter for one or more persons, related or not, who make up one or more households. Unoccupied dwellings, those under construction, or dwellings for occasional use at the time of enumeration are also registered in the census questionnaire but only the type of dwelling is investigated. On the other hand, buildings initially constructed as family dwellings but that, at the time of enumeration, are used exclusively for other purposes (offices, workshops, factories, etc.) are not included. In spite of not meeting the strict definition, those places of abode that were not initially built for residential use but that are used for that purpose at the moment of enumeration are also considered to be family dwellings. Such is the case of refuges used as the consequence of natural disasters, the spaces under an overpass, areas and other spaces whose original use is different from that of a dwelling but are also used for residential purposes; e.g. commercial buildings, factories, workshops, or garages, etc. The different types [of family dwellings] are listed below: <div class="i1">-- Mansion: A building used as a family dwelling constructed with luxury materials, such as: plastered brick or block, concrete or "machihembrado" [mortise and tenon joint] in the walls; "platabanda" [flat reinforced concrete roof], tile, wood (mahogany, oak) in the roof; marble, tile, granite, parquet in the floors. Mansions have extensive gardens and are very well maintained in front of, behind, and to the sides of the building. They have ample recreational and family use space. -- Quinta or "casaquinta" [house with yard/garden]: A building used as a family dwelling constructed of plastered brick or block, concrete or sawn wood in the walls; reinforced concrete, tile, or asbestos in the roof; tile, granite, and similar materials in the floors. It has a garden in front. -- House: A building used as a family dwelling constructed with materials such as: plastered or unplastered block or brick, concrete, sawn wood, adobe, plastered mud or stick and mud in the walls; reinforced concrete, tile, asbestos, or metal sheets in the roof; tile, granite and similar, or cement in the floor. Included here are traditional houses of mud and tile, houses built with</div> [p. 28] <div class="i1">modern materials, "la vivienda rural de Mariología", or the houses constructed by the "INAVI" [Instituto Nacional de la Vivienda -- National Dwelling Institute], other regional or municipal institutes and neighborhood houses. -- Apartment in building: Space used as a family dwelling that forms part of the structure of a building and has access from a common area of circulation. -- Apartment in quinta, "casaquinta", or house: Space that forms part of another dwelling and has exclusive kitchen appliances and toilet services. Has access that is independent or through a common area of circulation. -- Tenement: Structure that has various rooms or quarters used as family dwellings, where toilet services and water storage are outside of the rooms. Also have internal common areas. -- Rancho [hut/shack]: Building used as a family dwelling made of waste/discarded materials such as boards, cardboard, "caña" (cane) and similar. -- Refuge: Building converted to house persons or families who have had to abandon their dwellings before the occurrence of natural phenomena, war, etc. -- Other type of dwelling: Structure not built for human habitation that, at the time of enumeration, is found to be temporarily or permanently inhabited; such as: workplaces, storage sheds, trailers, vessels, caves, tents, or other shelters.</div> B) Collective Building or group of buildings meant to be the place of abode for a group of unrelated persons who usually live together for reasons of health, education, religion, discipline, work, or other causes. For the purposes of the census, boarding houses, student residences, and hotels where people live permanently, institutional collective dwellings, prisons, bases, welfare institutions, convents, worker residences, hospitals, etc., and other analogous establishments are included in this category. When family dwellings, as defined above, are found within a collective, they are enumerated separately, as family dwellings. This may be the case of administrative, managing, or service personnel of the collective. Collective dwellings can be located in: <div class="i1">-- Hotels, motels, boarding houses: Family boarding houses are also included. -- Student residences. -- Educational and religious institutions: This comprises colleges and high schools with residents, farm schools, military schools, convents, seminaries, religious congregations. -- Long-term care or psychiatric hospitals: This includes asylums and psychiatric wards, sanatoriums for the mentally ill, tuberculosis hospitals, hospitals, clinics, and sanatoriums</div> [p. 29] <div class="i1">for long-term care of the chronically ill, general hospitals and clinics, medical rehabilitation centers. -- Homes for the disabled and welfare institutions ["asilos"]: This includes homeless shelters, homes and schools for the deaf and mute, homes for the elderly, homes and schools for other disabled persons. -- Other assistance institutions for children, youth, or adults: This includes homes, workshops, immediate care centers, intensive care centers, children's centers, nurseries, kindergartens, orphanages, and other unspecified institutions. -- Penal institutions: This includes jails, penitentiaries, prisons, penal colonies, and judicial reformatories. -- Military institutions: Bases, encampments, garrisons, air bases, naval bases, commands, military positions, military farms. -- Other type of collective: This includes vessels, worker's camps, brothels, and other unspecified collectives.</div> </svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the type of dwelling.

Universe

Venezuela 2001: All households

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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