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IX National Population and Housing Census, 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 2010
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DOM_2010_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), IPUMS
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Cooking fuel (DO2010A_FUELCK)

Data file: DOM2010_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 317
End: 317
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Section IV - Household characteristics </span></p>

<p>16. What type of fuel does your household mainly use for cooking?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Propane<br />[] 2 Coal<br />[] 3 Wood<br />[] 4 Electricity<br />[] 5 Other<br />[] 6 Never cooks</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Propane
2 Coal
3 Wood
4 Electricity
5 Other
6 Does not cook
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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="em">Question 16. </span>What type of fuel does your household mainly use for cooking?
<br />The goal of this question is to establish the main type of fuel used for cooking in the household.
<br />Ask the question and fill in the code given by the informant. If the informant states that there is more than one fuel for cooking, ask which one is primarily used, then record the one that corresponds to the option given. In the case that the fuel used is not propane, coal, wood or electricity mark the option "Other" and when the members of the household eat out or get their food already prepared, meaning, there is no cooking in the household, then fill in the option to code 6 "Never cook".

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the fuel used by the household for cooking.
Universe
Dominican Republic 2010: Private, occupied dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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