XV National Population and IV Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1985 - 1986

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COL_1985_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS

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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Number of families in household (NFAMS)

Data file: COL1985_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 172

End: 172

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category
0	Vacant household
1	1 family
2	2 families
3	3 families
4	4 families
5	5 families
6	6 families
7	7 families
8	8 families
9	9 or more families

Description

Definition

NFAMS is a constructed variable that indicates the number of families within each household. Family membership is defined by FAMUNIT. A "family" is any group of persons related by blood, adoption, or marriage. An unrelated individual within the household is considered a separate family. Thus, a household consisting of a widow and a domestic employee contains two families; a household consisting of a large, multi-generation extended family with no persons unrelated to the head counts as a single family.

NFAMS is constructed from information in RELATE (relationship to head) and from the constructed pointer variables SPLOC, MOMLOC, and POPLOC (location of spouse, mother, and father). See those variable descriptions for more detail.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Constructed Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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