Variable HC6 : Type of fuel using for cooking

Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimal(s): 0
Range: 1-99
Valid case(s): 6392
Invalid: 493
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 99

File: hh

Universe
Households with a completed household questionnaire (HH9=1).
Source of information
Head of household.

Categories

Value Category Cases
1 Electricity 3495 54.7%
2 Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) 850 13.3%
3 Natural gas 305 4.8%
4 Biogas 0 0.0%
5 Kerosene 0 0.0%
6 Coal / Lignite 11 0.2%
7 Charcoal 18 0.3%
8 Wood 1692 26.5%
9 Straw / Shrubs / Grass 3 0.0%
10 Animal dung 0 0.0%
11 Agricultural crop residue 6 0.1%
95 No food cooked in household 9 0.1%
96 Other 0 0.0%
99 Missing 3 0.0%
Sysmiss 493
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.

Literal question
What type of fuel does your household mainly use for cooking?
Interviewer instructions
Information on the type of fuel used for cooking is collected as another measure of the socio-economic status of the household. The use of some cooking fuels can also have adverse health consequences.

Circle the code corresponding to the answer given. Remember that this question asks about fuel for cooking, not fuel for heating or lighting. If the household uses more than one fuel for cooking, find out which type of fuel is used most often. If electricity, liquid propane gas (LPG), natural gas, biogas or kerosene is mainly used, circle '01', '02', '03', '04', or '05', respectively, and skip to HC8. There might be cases when no cooking is done in the household. In this case, circle '95' and skip to HC8. If any fuel other than the pre-coded ones is reported as being the main fuel used for cooking, circle '96' and specify the type of fuel on the line provided. 

Definitions of some of the types of fuel are as follows: 'Biogas' includes gases produced by fermenting manure in an enclosed pit. 'Lignite' is a derivative of coal that produces more smoke when burned but produces less heat than coal.
Generated: OCT-19-2012 using the IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit