Codes and Frequencies
Description
FREEZER indicates whether the household had a food freezer separate from a refrigerator.
Comparability — Index
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GENERAL Brazil |
Egypt Malawi |
Suriname Uruguay |
Comparability — General
The variable is comparable across countries. Several countries include freezers in the question about refrigerators. Those cases are recorded in the variable REFRIG.
Comparability — Brazil [top]
The 2000 Brazil census included freezers in the question about refrigerators (see REFRIG).
Comparability — Egypt [top]
The 2006 sample recorded the number of freezers in the household, which is retained in the unharmonized data.
Comparability — Malawi [top]
The 2018 Malawi census included freezers in the question about refrigerators (see REFRIG).
Comparability — Suriname [top]
The 2012 sample asks whether the household had any freezers in working condition.
Comparability — Uruguay [top]
All samples include only independent freezer units. The 1996 sample has a separate unharmonized source variable for refrigerator-freezers.
Universe
- Brazil 1991: Not group quarters or improvised dwellings; only households that had electric lighting, with or without a meter
- Canada 1971: Private households
- Egypt 1996: All households
- Egypt 2006: Private households
- Malawi 2018: All households
- Sierra Leone 2015: Occupied households
- Suriname 2012: All households
- United States 1960: Not group quarters or vacant units (answered by only 20% of households)
- Uruguay 1985: Occupied private dwellings with dwellers present
- Uruguay 1996: Occupied private households
- Uruguay 2006: All households
Availability
- Brazil: 1991
- Canada: 1971
- Egypt: 1996, 2006
- Malawi: 2018
- Sierra Leone: 2015
- Suriname: 2012
- United States: 1960
- Uruguay: 1985, 1996, 2006
