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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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Housing has electricity (CO1985A_ELECT)

Data file: COL1985_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 185
End: 185
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CO85A014"><span class="em">16. Does this dwelling have electricity?</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 3 No</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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
<svar a="all" v="CO85A014"><span class="em">Question No. 16 Electric energy in the dwelling</span><br /><br />[Below the text is a form.]<br /><br />Mark "x" in the corresponding box.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the housing unit has electricity.
Universe
Colombia 1985: Occupied households with people present [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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