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)

Metadata

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Aug 01, 2025

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Private household or institution (TT1990A_GQ)

Data file: TTO1990_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 179

End: 179

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
0	Private household
1	Institution

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">Part III<br />Some basic concepts and definitions </span></p>

<p>Private dwelling </p>
<div class="i1">Private type dwellings are those in which private households reside. Examples are single houses, flats, apartments, outrooms, part of commercial buildings, boarding houses catering for less than six persons etc.</div><p>Vacant dwelling unit
<br /> </p>
<div class="i1">If the house is habitable, but no one lives there during your preliminary enumeration, you must also visit the house on the day after census day, so that you can enumerate anyone who may have moved in subsequent to your previous visit.</div>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the record is a private household or an institution.

Universe

Trinidad and Tobago 1990: All households

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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