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National Census of Housing and Population 1976 - IPUMS Subset

Bolivia, 1976
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BOL_1976_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and Coordination, Republic of Bolivia, IPUMS
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Dwelling type (BO1976A_GQ)

Data file: BOL1976_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 209
End: 209
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Private
2 Collective
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
<span class="h1">Basic concepts</span></p>

<p>The basic concepts that you should use when doing the interviews are:</p>

<p><span class="em">Household</span> is a person or group of persons who occupy the dwelling.</p>

<p><span class="em">Dwelling</span> is the physical place of inhabitation.</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="BO76A049"><span class="em">Private dwelling</span> is that which is constructed for one or more persons whether related or not, who live under the same roof, in a family schedule and who regularly share meals.<br /><br /><span class="em">Collective dwelling</span> is a group of persons who share a dwelling without family rules, for reasons of health, discipline, religion, punishment, etc.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates if the household is private or collective.
Universe
Bolivia 1976: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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