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General Population Census of 1968 - IPUMS Subset

France, 1968
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FRA_1968_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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INSEE (Institut National de la Statisque et des Etudes Economiques), IPUMS
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Heating source of the dwelling (and the building) (FR1968A_HEATSRC)

Data file: FRA1968_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 134
End: 135
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="FR68A004 FR68A005 FR68A008"><span class="h3">10. Central heating</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Urban heating<br />[] 2 Public heating for a group of buildings.<br />Building with three or more dwellings<br />[] 3 With public heating for the building itself (serving the whole building or only the shared spaces, or several dwellings).<br />[] 4 Without public heating installation (some dwellings able to possess individual installations)<br />Building with 1 or 2 dwellings<br />[] 5 With installation of central heating.<br />[] 6 Without installation of central heating.<br />If you have checked one of the boxes numbered 2, 3 or 5, indicate the fuel used:<br />[] 1 Coal.<br />[] 2 Oil.<br />[] 3 Gas.<br />[] 4 Wood<br />[] 5 Others. Specify: ___</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
10 Urban heating
21 Shared central heating by coal
22 Shared central heating by oil
23 Shared central heating by gas
24 Shared central heating by wood
31 Individual central heating, private home (one single dwelling); coal
32 Individual central heating, private home (one single dwelling); oil
33 Individual central heating, private home (one single dwelling); gas
34 Individual central heating, private home (one single dwelling), wood
41 Individual central heating, residential building (more than one dwelling); coal
42 Individual central heating, residential building (more than one dwelling); oil
43 Individual central heating, residential building (more than one dwelling); oil
44 Individual central heating, residential building (more than one dwelling); wood
50 Dwelling without central heating in a private home
60 Dwelling without central heating in a residential building
99 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
<svar a="all" v="FR68A004 FR68A005 FR68A008"><span class="h3">3.3.7. Question 10: Central heating</span><br />Check one box only for the main question. Rubric 2 corresponds especially in the case of some large modern residential buildings where the various buildings are heated by the same furnace. It also is the case for some workers' development housing centers and villas for engineers heated by the factory.<br />Do not forget to specify the fuel used if you have checked boxes 2, 3 or 5 of the main question.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="FR68A007" v="FR68A004 FR68A007"><span class="h3">4.3.6 Question 9: Central heating.</span><br />In the case of a building containing just one dwelling, for which you will check box 5 on question 10 of the house form, you will check one of the boxes 1- 5 in question 9 of the housing form. The answer 6 to question 9 of the housing form should not be used except in the case of shared heating used in the whole building or in several dwellings of the building.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the source of heat and the fuel used in it for the dwelling.
Universe
France 1968: Private ordinary dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Appliances, Mechanicals, Other Amenities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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