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XIII Recenseamento Geral da População e III Recenseamento Geral da Habitação 1991 - IPUMS Subset

Portugal, 1991
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PRT_1991_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Portugal Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Minnesota Population Center
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Number of rooms in the dwelling (PT1991A_0039)

Data file: PRT1991-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 141
End: 141
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions 7-18 were asked of private dwellings only]




[Questions 8-18 were asked of usual-residence dwellings only]




If your dwelling is a tent, rudimentary timber house, mobile home, temporary or improvised home, end this questionnaire.
[Questions 13-18 were asked of convention dwellings only]




14. Number of rooms in the dwelling _ _
Not including kitchen, corridors, halls, bathrooms, verandas, store rooms, or any other room exclusively used for a professional activity.
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
9 9+
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
Attention: The next questions should only be answered by conventional family dwellings occupied as usual residence. If they are not of a conventional type the filling-in of the questionnaire is over.
[Questions 13-18 apply only to conventional dwellings]




Question 14: Number of rooms in the dwelling:

By room we understand the space in a dwelling, delimited by walls, having at least 4 square meters and with 2 meters of height on the majority of the space.

Even though they satisfy the previous definition, the following are not counted as rooms:

-- The kitchen;
-- Corridors, balconies;
-- Bathrooms, dispensary, halls;
-- Spaces exclusively destined to economic activities.

The rooms that are exclusively used for an economic activity must not be counted as rooms in this question.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates number of rooms in the dwelling.
Universe
Private, usual residence, conventional households

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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