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15th General Population and Housing Census
IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Italy, 2011
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ITA_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Number of families in household (NFAMS)

Data file: ITA2011_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 128
End: 128
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
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
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
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.

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