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General Population Census VIII, Homes IV and Housing VI - IPUMS Subset

Uruguay, 2011
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URY_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS
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Electricity source (UY2011A_ELECTRC)

Data file: URY2011_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 223
End: 223
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Data of Private Occupied Dwellings</span>
<br />(Only for the first household or single household)</p>

<p><span class="em">9. Which is the main means of electrical lighting of this dwelling? (VivDV07)</span>
<br />(Read the question and select the appropriate option according to the response)</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 UTE or general network<br />[] 2 Battery powered wind charger<br />[] 3 Battery powered solar charger<br />[] 4 Personal power generator<br />[] 5 Other electric source<br />[] 6 Does not have</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 UTE or general network
2 Battery powered wind charger
3 Battery powered solar charger
4 Personal power generator
5 Other electric
6 No electricity
9 Unknown
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 identifies the source of electricity for the household.
Universe
Uruguay 2011: Private occupied households [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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