General Census 2005 (XVII of Population and Dwelling and VI of Housing). - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 2005 - 2006

Get Microdata

Reference ID

COL_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Dec 19, 2014

Last modified

Sep 03, 2025

Page views

27357

Downloads

4254

Fuel used for cooking (CO2005A_FUELCK)

Data file: COL2005_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 267

End: 267

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="CO05A064">16. With what energy or fuel do they cook primarily? (expanded)<br /><div class="i1">[Question 16 was asked of households that prepared their food in the dwelling, per question 15.]<br /><br />[] 1. Electrical energy<br />[] 2. Natural gas<br />[] 3. Gas in a cylinder or tank<br />[] 4. Petroleum, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol<br />[] 5. Fire wood, wood, discarded materials, vegetable coal [charcoal]<br />[] 6. Mineral coal</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Electrical energy
2	Natural gas
3	Gas in cylinder or tank
4	Petroleum, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol
5	Firewood, wood, discarded materials, vegetable coal
6	Mineral coal
8	Unknown
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 indicates the primary fuel used for cooking.

Universe

Colombia 2005: Households who prepared food in the dwelling [discrepencies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

Back to Catalog