Home / Central Data Catalog / VEN_1990_PHC_V01_M_V7.5_A_IPUMS / variable [H]
central

XII Censo General de Población y Vivienda - IPUMS Subset

Venezuela, RB, 1990
Get Microdata
Reference ID
VEN_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Oficina Central de Estadística e Informática, IPUMS
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
Sep 29, 2011
Last modified
Sep 03, 2025
Page views
19101
Downloads
1082

Walls (VE1990A_WALLS)

Data file: VEN1990_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 193
End: 193
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="VE90A032">4. The predominant material in the exterior walls is:<br /><div class="i1">[] Finished cement block or brick<br />[] Unfinished cement block or brick<br />[] Concrete<br />[] Sawed wood, Formica, fiberglass and similar<br />[] Finished adobe, adobe or mud wall (<span class="lang">tapia</span>), bamboo-and-mud (<span class="lang">bahareque</span>)<br />[] Unfinished adobe, mud wall, bamboo-and-mud</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Finished cement block-brick
2 Unfinished cement block-brick
3 Concrete
4 Wood, formica, fiberglass or similar
5 Finished adobe, mud, stick-and-mud
6 Unfinished adobe, mud, stick-and-mud not frisonado
7 Other
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
<svar a="all" v="VE90A032"><span class="em">Question No.4</span><br /><br />[Outer walls]<br />[The instructions refer to a graphic of section II, question 4 on the census form.]<br /><br />-- Observe the material used most in the construction of the outer walls and fill in the corresponding cell.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the predominant material of walls in the household.
Universe
Venezuela 1990: Private permanent occupied dwellings, except "other type" [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Back to Catalog