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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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Reference ID
ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Fuel for cooking and heating: Other (C_CHOTHER)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 394
End: 394
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
30 What does your household use for cooking and heating?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

ELECTRICITY A
GAS B
PARAFFIN C
W OOD D
COAL E
ANIMAL DUNG F
OTHER __________ X
Categories
Value Category
6 Non-resident
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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
CHOTHER indicates whether the household uses some other fuel for cooking and heating. The meaning of "other" depends on the types of fuel specified in a given sample.

The information in CHOTHER is taken from the household record applies to household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis and using the RESIDENT variable when women, children, and births are the unit of analysis.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Housing Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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