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National Population Census 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2011
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Reference ID
NPL_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Jul 30, 2025
Last modified
Aug 01, 2025
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Number of stories (NP2011A_STORIES)

Data file: NPL2011_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 199
End: 199
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Household Information</span></p>

<p><span class="em">[2.4] No. of floor ____</span>
Categories
Value Category
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8+
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">Household information</span></p>

<p><span class="em">2.4 Number of floors/stories of a house</span>
<br />Number of floors should be written by determining the number of floors of the house where the family is living in. The house with roof without any floor should be considered as single floor. If the top floor covers only same part of the roof, such floor should be counted and be added to the total number of floors.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the number of stories or floors in the house or dwelling.
Universe
Nepal 2011: All households

concept

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