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Population and Dwelling Count 1995 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 1995
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MEX_1995_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Electricity (MX1995A_ELECT)

Data file: MEX1995_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 203
End: 203
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="MX95A041"><span class="h3">1.16 Electricity</span><br />Is there electric light in this dwelling?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><br /></svar>
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Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
9 Unknown
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="MX95A041"><span class="em">1.16 Electricity</span><br /><br />With this question, the number of dwellings that has electric energy service for lighting the dwelling is known, without considering the source form where it is provided, which can be a storage battery, public energy service, a private plant or a solar energy plant, among others.<br /><br />[graphic of the question from the census form]<br /><br />If a dwelling has electric light, circle code 1, if it does not, circle code 2.<br /><br />When electric energy is not used to light a dwelling, it does not have a service. For example, when the electricity is only to activate a water pump.<br /><br />Dwellings connected to a public system of electricity that temporarily has the service suspended, or dwellings that receive light from a public system of an irregular manner are considered with electric light.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates electricity availability.
Universe
Mexico 1995: All households

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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