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Costa Rica, 2011

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CRI_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS

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Used cell phone in the last 3 months (CR2011A_CELL3MO)

Data file: CRI2011_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 225

End: 225

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Only for people 5 years or older
<br />[Questions 15-17 are only applied to persons aged 5 and older]</p>

<p>18. In the last 3 months has [the respondent] used...?</p>
<div class="i1">Cell phone</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div>

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	Yes
2	No

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

Questions 15 to 19 should be asked questions to people 5 years or older.</p>

<p><span class="em">Question 18: Use of cellular phone, computer, and internet</span></p>

<p>18. In the last 3 months has [name] used . . .?</p>
<div class="i1">Cell phone</div><div class="i2">[] 1 yes<br />[] 2 no</div><div class="i1">Computer</div><div class="i2">[] 1 yes<br />[] 2 no</div><div class="i1">Internet</div><div class="i2">[] 1 yes<br />[] 2 no</div><p>The objective is to investigate whether the people have used a cell phone, computer, or internet in the past three months, for whatever reason.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the respondent used a cell phone in the last 3 months.

Universe

Costa Rica 2011: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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