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The Population and Housing Census of Thailand 1980 - IPUMS Subset

Thailand, 1980
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Type of living quarter (TH1980A_0040)

Data file: THA1980-H-H

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Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 121
End: 121
Width: 1
Range: -
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Questions and instructions

Literal question
Part 3. Housing Questions (For Private Household)


[Questions H1-H18 were asked of private households.]


Number H1 and H2 by observation of house



H1. Type of structure

[] 1 Detached
[] 2 Duplex
[] 3 Row house
[] 4 Apartment
[] 5 Room
[] 6 Mobile
[] 7 Other (specify) ____
Categories
Value Category
1 Detached house
2 Duplex
3 Row house
4 Apartment
5 Room
6 Mobile
7 Other living quarters
8 Unknown
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
3.30 Type of Living Place:

The descriptive characteristics of a living place where a household lives. It can be classified into the following categories:

p. 34


3.30.1 Single house means a house building in a single unit including kitchen, garage, servant house (if any). It is a living place of family members of a household.
Or several houses located in the same fence. It is a living place of family members of a household.

Thai traditional style houses consist of several houses connecting together by the corridor. It is used as a living place of a household. If each house is used as a living place of each household, it is also regarded as s single house.

Raft which is used as a single house is regarded as a single house.

3.30.2 Duplex means houses, rooms, or buildings connecting to each other. Each comprises 2 separate units and shares the wall.

3.30.3 Row house, row rooms, or row building means houses, rooms, or buildings connecting to each other for more than 3 separate units in a row. They share one side of wall, or two sides of wall. They may be one or more stories. These include row-rafts for labor workers of the Royal Irrigation Department.

3.30.4 Flat or apartment means groups of rooms which are part of a building and using as a living place of a household. These groups of rooms must have their own kitchen or bathroom and entrance.

3.30.5 Rooms in a house means a room or more that are used as a living place of a given household. In a house, there may be more than a household and either kitchen, bathroom, entrance of its own, or share with other household living in the same rooms. These include rooms in the building that share, kitchen or entrance with other rooms within the same building.
If there is a main household which is occupied major areas of the house and other households which are part of the house, the main household is regarded as a single house while the other households are regarded as rooms within the house.

If the areas of all households are equal, then all households are regarded as rooms within the house.

3.30.6 Others type of living place means a living place of a household that does not fall into any category e.g., boat using as a living place, log raft (even though there is a living place on the raft, it is not counted as a raft), car using as a living place including caves, or others e.g., under the bridge, temporary construction labor workers? houses. It may be a building etc.



Section 3 Questions on Housing
(Ask only private household)

Questions on housing are concerned with living places of every private household in municipal area. For those outside municipal area and Bangkok, ask only the sample households.


Guideline for questioning and recording

1. Ask conditions of living place by household not by person.
2. If a household living in many houses in the same area, consider the house where head of the household lives.
3. If several households living in the same house, consider conditions of the living place of the main household, other households or conditions of living are regarded as rooms in the house.
4. In recording answer, circle one code number only. If answer is ?others,? specify and record the answer clearly.
5. The question that has no answer code, record statement or number in the blank on the dot line.



H 1. Conditions of living place of household (consider the house)

Circle only one code number corresponding to the conditions of the living place, e.g.

1. Single house/Detached house
2. Twin house/duplex
3. Row house, row building
4. Suites
5. Room within house
6. Boat, raft, motor house


If the living place are different from the aforementioned conditions, record the conditions of the living place in Item "Others, specify"____.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of living quarter.
Universe
Private households

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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