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1990 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Trinidad and Tobago, 1980
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Reference ID
TTO_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Office, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Type of dwelling unit (TT1990A_DWTYPE)

Data file: TTO1990_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 140
End: 141
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Characteristics of the dwelling unit occupied by household</span></p>

<p>Interviewer: A dwelling unit must have a separate entrance and not be accessed or entered through someone else's living arrangements.</p>

<p>38. How would you describe the type of dwelling unit that your household occupies?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Separate house<br />[] 2 Flat/apartment<br />[] 3 Town house/WAFDA<br />[] 4 Double house/duplex<br />[] 5 Part of commercial/industrial building<br />[] 6 Barracks<br />[] 7 Out-room<br />[] 8 Other private dwelling<br />[] 9 Group dwelling<br />[] 10 Other<br />[] 11 No fixed abode<br />[] 99 Not stated</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Separate house
02 Flat or apartment
03 Town house or WAFDA
04 Double house or duplex
05 Part of commercial or industrial building
06 Barracks
07 Out-rooms
08 Other private dwelling
09 Group dwelling
10 Other
99 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">Characteristics of the dwelling unit </span></p>

<p>Question 38 - Type of dwelling </p>
<div class="i1">The information to be recorded in this question must relate to the building or part of the building used for residential accommodation by private households. There is also a pictorial chart which will further assist you in classifying dwelling units. <br />The pre-coded categories are as follows:- <br />[01] Separate house <br />Defines a dwelling unit which takes up the complete building; it may be inhabited by one or more households. <br />[02] Flats/apartments <br />Flats are self-contained private dwellings in a single or multi-storied building.<br />Apartments should be ticked where the household occupied part of the building but has separate and direct access to and from the street or from a public or communal staircase, passage, or gallery, etc. <br />[03] Town house/<span class="lang">wafda </span><br />A block of self-contained units with separate legal title to ownership. Sometimes common facilities such as security and grounds may be shared. <br />[04] Double house/duplex <br />A dwelling joined to only one other dwelling, separated from it by a wall extending from ground to roof, i.e. one or two dwellings attached side by side, having no other dwellings either above or below and separated by open space from all other structures. <br />[05] Part of commercial/industrial building <br />This type of dwelling would be ticked when the household occupies part of the building for living purposes while other parts of the building are used as business places, lodges, garages, etc. <br />[06] Barracks <br />A room or division of a long building containing several independent or dependent private dwellings, with or without shared facilities. <br />[07] Outroom <br />A room or rooms separated from the main building and occupied by a separate household i.e. servant's quarters, etc. <br />[08] Other private dwelling <br />Mobile homes, derelict vehicles, etc. In short, a dwelling in conditions different from those specified above. <br />[09] Group dwellings <br />These have already been defined and refer to certain types of institutions i.e. boarding houses, hotels, hostels. <br />[10] Other <br />A category which describes a type of accommodation not defined from [01] to [09].</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of dwelling unit.
Universe
Trinidad and Tobago 1990: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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