Census of Population and Housing 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Philippines, 1990

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Reference ID

PHL_1990_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Statistics Office, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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How was the house acquired (PH1990A_0036)

Data file: PHL1990-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 142

End: 142

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

H5. Acquisition of Housing Unit

How did you acquire this housing unit?

___ Enter code

1 Purchased .
2 Constructed by the owner/occupants with or without help of friends/relatives
3 Constructed by hired/skilled workers
4 Constructed by an organized contractor
5 Inherited (Enter code, go to H7)
6 Others (lottery, gift) (Enter code, go to H7)

Categories

Value	Category
1	Purchased
2	Owner constructed
3	Constructed by hired workers
4	Constructed by organized contractor
5	Inherited
6	Others
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

H5 Acquisition of Housing Unit

Ask the question in H5, "How did you acquire this housing unit?" only if the entry in H4 is code 1 (owned/being amortized). Enter the code which describes how the household acquired the housing unit.

The different categories for this item are:

1 Purchased

2 Constructed by the owner/occupants with or without the help of friends/relatives

3 Constructed by hired/skilled workers - The owner of the housing unit took charge of purchasing construction materials and hiring construction workers and directly supervised the construction of the housing unit.

4 Constructed by an organized contractor - The owner entered into a contract with a general contractor for the latter to supply either labor only or both labor and materials.

5 Inherited

6 Others (lottery, gift)

If the answer in this item is code 5 or 6, go to H7.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates how the housing unit was acquired.

Universe

Households that own or are amortizing the housing unit

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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