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General Census of Population and Housing (1988) - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1988
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SEN_1988_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Number of Rooms (SN1988A_ROOMS)

Data file: SEN1988_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 176
End: 177
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="SN88A044 SN88A045">H1. Number of rooms the household lives in______<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
00 0
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
99 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.
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="SN88A044 SN88A045">H) Number of inhabited rooms<br />You must record the number of rooms of dwelling usage occupied by the households: bedrooms, living rooms and eating rooms.<br /><br /><div class="i1">The kitchens, bathrooms and toilets shall not be counted.<br /><br />In the case of rooms occupied by several households together, you must attribute them to one of them.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the number of rooms used by the household for living.

Kitchens, bathrooms and toilets are not counted in the total. Rooms occupied by several households together were attributed to one of them.
Universe
Senegal 1988: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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