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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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Type of household (VE2001A_HHTYPE)

Data file: VEN2001_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 250
End: 250
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Single person
2 Nuclear
3 Extended
4 Combined
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="VE01A076"><span class="h3">3. The households</span><br /><br />The definition of Household adopted for this census is that of a domestic unit, formed by one person or a group of two or more persons, related or not, who live together in the same dwelling, share the same services, and maintain a common food budget. This constitutes the general framework within which persons will be identified.<br /><br />The usual resident population, present or absent at the time of the census, is included in the Household (criteria for a <span class="ital">de jure </span>or "<span class="lang">de derecho</span>" census).<br /><br />A household may occupy part or all of a dwelling, but it can also live in encampments, tenements, boarding houses, or refuges. They can also be the administrative, maintenance, or security personnel of an institution. They may also not have any place of abode.<br /><br />In the presentation of the census results and according to size, households will be classified into:<br /> <div class="i1">One-person household: Household formed by one person who lives alone in all or part of the dwelling and does not share a food budget with anyone else.<br /><br />Multi-person household: Household constituted by two or more persons. At the same time, multi-person households, according to the family relationship of the members to the head ("<span class="lang">Jefe o Jefa</span>") of household, are classified as:<br /><br />Nuclear households: A concept restricted to family, limited to the closest family relationships. Four types of nuclear families can be conceived:</div><br /><div class="i2">Married couple without children.<br />Married couple with one or more children.<br />Father with one or more children.<br />Mother with one or more children.</div><br />To form part of the nucleus, a child should be unmarried and not have a partner.<br /><br />Nuclear families can also be classified according to the following types:<br /><br /><span class="em">Primary</span>: The family nucleus formed by the head of household, his/her spouse or partner, children, whether or not they are children of the partner with whom the head lives, legally adopted children, "<span class="lang">hijos de crianza</span>" [children being raised by the head who are not biological children] (if, in fact, recognized as such), and children from a previous marriage, only when they are recognized by the Head and are unmarried without children.<br /><br /><span class="em">Secondary</span>: Nuclear family formed by members of the household who do not belong to the primary family nucleus.<br /><div class="i1">-- <span class="em">Extended households</span>: Households formed by a nuclear Household and other persons related to the head of household; e.g. a mother or father with a child (or children) and another family member</div><br /><span class="pg">[p. 23]</span><br /><div class="i1">(or other family members) or a married couple with another family member (or other family members). A household made up by a group of relatives that does not correspond to the definition of nuclear household is also considered to be an extended household; e.g. two or more persons who are related to each other, but neither one constitutes a nuclear family.<br /><br />-- <span class="em">Compound households</span>: Those households formed by nuclear or extended households and other persons not related to the head of household. A group of unrelated persons living together also constitute a compound household; e.g. two or more nuclear families not related to each other, with or without another person; or two or more related persons not forming a nuclear household living with other unrelated persons.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of household.
Universe
Venezuela 2001: Permanently occupied private dwellings including refuse and other types [discrepancies: none]

concept

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