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XVI National Population and V de Housing Census1993 - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1993 - 1994
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), Minnesota Population Center
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Fuel used for cooking (CO1993A_0027)

Data file: COL1993-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 138
End: 138
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
17. What is the principal cooking fuel?

[] 1 Electricity
[] 2 Petroleum gasoline, kerosene, cocinol [locally available cooking fuel]
[] 3 Gas
[] 4 Wood
[] 5 Coal
[] 6 Waste materials
Categories
Value Category
1 Electricity
2 Petroleum gasoline, kerosene, cocinol
3 Gas
4 Wood
5 Charcoal
6 Waste materials
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
17. What is the principal cooking fuel?

Explain to the interviewed person that they should select the alternative that is used most frequently.

[Below the text is a form.]

When in a household more than one source of energy is used for cooking, insist in determining which is the most frequent. Take into account the following criteria:


Electricity
When an oven or stove works with electric energy.

Petroleum gasoline, kerosene, cocinol [locally available cooking fuel]
When an oven or stove works with some type of liquid fuel derived from petroleum.

Gas
When an oven or stove works with gas from pipette or supplied from an outside system.

Coal
Choose this option when a household uses mineral or vegetal coal.

Discarded material
When the source of heat comes from the direct combustion of trash or any material different than the previous ones.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the principal cooking fuel used in the household.
Universe
Occupied dwellings with people present at enumeration

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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