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XV National Population and IV Housing Census 1985 - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1985 - 1986
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COL_1985_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), Minnesota Population Center
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Number of families in household (NFAMS)

Data file: COL1985-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 112
End: 112
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
0 Vacant household
1 1 family
2 2 families
3 3 families
4 4 families
5 5 families
6 6 families
7 7 families
8 8 families
9 9 or more families
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.

Description

Definition
NFAMS is a constructed variable that indicates the number of families within each household. A "family" is any group of persons related by blood, adoption, or marriage. An unrelated individual within the household is considered a separate family. Thus, a household consisting of a widow and her servant contains two families; a household consisting of a large, multiple-generation extended family with no lodgers or servants would count as a single family.

NFAMS is constructed from information in RELATE (relationship to head) and from the constructed pointer variables SPLOC, MOMLOC, and POPLOC (location of spouse, mother, and father). See those variable descriptions for more detail.

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