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XVI National Population and V de Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1993 - 1994
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COL_1993_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS
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Dwelling occupancy (CO1993A_OCCUP)

Data file: COL1993_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 181
End: 181
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="CO93A012 CO93A013 CO93A014 CO93A015 CO93A016 CO93A017 CO93A018 CO93A019 CO93A020 CO93A021"><span class="h1">II. Information about the dwelling</span><br /><br /><span class="em">(Only for household number one)</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CO93A013"><span class="em">7. Occupancy of the dwelling</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Occupied with people present<br />[] 2 Occupied, but no people present (end here)<br />[] 3 Vacant (end here)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Occupied
2 No people present
3 Vacant
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 v="CO93A012 CO93A013 CO93A014 CO93A015 CO93A016 CO93A017 CO93A018 CO93A019 CO93A020 CO93A021"><span class="h3">II. Dwelling information</span><br />[Applies to household number one only]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CO93A013"><span class="em">7. Occupancy of the dwelling</span><br /><br />Take into account the following criteria:<br /><br />[Below the text is a form.]<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Occupied with persons present</span><br />When at the moment of the census a person or persons are present in a dwelling who live in it.<br /><br /><span class="em">Occupied with all persons absent</span><br />When in a dwelling there is furniture and domestic equipment, but its inhabitants are absent at the moment of the census; or when an adequate interviewed person is not found in the dwelling, for example when they are only children, or only with persons with communication difficulties or only domestic employees, etc.<br /><br /><span class="em">Unoccupied</span><br />When a dwelling is uninhabited.</div><br /><br />Before selecting the response, verify the condition of occupancy. If you do not receive a response when knocking on a dwelling, consult with the neighbors to know if it is uninhabited (option 3) or its inhabitants are absent in the moment of the census (option 2).<br /><br />Do not trust signs such as "for sale" or "for rent", it is possible that it is occupied. Always knock on the door.<br /><br />You can find the case of <span class="em">dwellings that are used for lodging in certain times of the year</span>, as vacations, three day weekends, weekends (persons who at times occupy it reside in another place). Consider them <span class="em">unoccupied</span>.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 156]</span><br /><br />If you marked option 3, "unoccupied", erase the annotation that you made in question "2. No. of the household within the dwelling" and write 00. Stop filling out the form here and continue to the next dwelling.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the dwelling was occupied, or vacant.
Universe
Colombia 1993: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Technical Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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