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Swiss Federal Population Census of 1970 - IPUMS Subset

Switzerland, 1970
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CHE_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Occupancy status of dwelling (CH1970A_OCCSTATUS)

Data file: CHE1970_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 165
End: 165
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CH70A110">2. Ownership status: do you occupy this dwelling as?<br /><div class="i1">[] House owner<br />[] Condominium owner<br />[] Other co-owner of house<br />[] Lessee<br />[] Tenant<br />[] Member of a co-operative<br />[] Company dwelling<br />[] Free dwelling</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">[Notes to question 2]<br />Member of a co-operative are members of a building co-op who at the same time occupy a dwelling therein.<br /><br />Company dwellings are provided by employers to employees according to an employment contract.<br /><br />Free dwellings are dwellings provided for free by other than employers (e.g. relatives).</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Tenant
2 Cooperative
3 Owner of floor or dwelling
4 Owner of building
5 Co-owner of building
6 Company or official residence
7 Free [rent] dwelling
8 Lessee
9 NIU (not in universe)
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
This variable describes the ownership status of the dwelling, for all dwellings that are not emergency shelters, collective dwellings, or institutions.
Universe
Switzerland 1970: Private households except emergency shelters [discrepancies: none]

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