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Federal Population Census 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Switzerland, 2000
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Reference ID
CHE_2000_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Federal Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Type of building (CH2000A_0092)

Data file: CHE2000-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 137
End: 137
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1. Mark the first category, please, if the building is a factory, a school, an administrative building or an office building but contains at least one dwelling suitable for residential purposes (presently occupied or not occupied). Also mark here hotels, institutional homes, hospitals etc.

Mark the second category, please, if the building is a detached single family house or a building which contains only residential dwellings/apartments (even if the building is only occupied occasionally). If the building contains rooms for doctor offices, shops etc, then mark category 3, please.

Mark the third category, please, if the building contains several dwellings but also commercial space such as shops, ateliers, doctor- , professional- or other offices. This category includes also farm houses located on farms.

Category four is for temporary accommodations such as wagons, mobile homes, house boats, barracks, alms [mountain] houses, buildings ready for demolition. Mark this category only if the buildings are occupied on December 5.
Categories
Value Category
1 One family house
2 Two families house
3 Multiple families house
4 Other building
5 Emergency shelter
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of building in which the dwelling is located.
Universe
Occupied buildings

concept

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