1971 National Census of Dwellings and Population - IPUMS Subset

Nicaragua, 1971

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Reference ID

NIC_1971_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Radio and television (NI1971A_RADIOTV)

Data file: NIC1971_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 210

End: 210

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="NI71A044 NI71A045"><span class="em">14. Household appliances</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">Radio</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><br /><div class="i1">Television</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><br /><div class="i1">Electric iron</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><br /><div class="i1">Refrigerator</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes, has both radio and television
2	Yes, has radio only
3	Yes, has television only
4	No, does not have radio or television
8	Unknown
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="NI71A044 NI71A045"><span class="em">Question #14</span><br /><br /><span class="em">Household appliances</span><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">a. How to carry out the investigation</span><br />The informant should be asked if the household has a <span class="em">radio, television, electric iron, and refrigerator</span>.<br /><br /><span class="em">b. How to record the data</span><br />According to the informant's answer, the corresponding boxes are marked with an "X". For this question, one or more boxes are marked according to the appliances available to the household.<br /><br />c. Example:</div><br /><br />[These instructions refer to a graph of question 14 on the census form]<br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates if the household has radio or television.

Universe

Nicaragua 1971: Private occupied households [discrepancies: type I 0.1%, type II 0.1%]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Appliances, Mechanicals, Other Amenities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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