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XIV Recenseamento Geral da População e IV Recenseamento Geral da Habitação - IPUMS Subset

Portugal, 2001
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PRT_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Portugal Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Sewage (PT2001A_SEWER)

Data file: PRT2001_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 161
End: 161
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="PT01A034 PT01A035 PT01A036 PT01A037 PT01A038 PT01A040 PT01A039 PT01A041 PT01A033 PT01A031 PT01A032">[Questions 4-18 were asked of persons living in housing units as the place of their usual residence, according to question 3]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PT01A038">9. Sewage disposal system:<br /><div class="i1">[] Housing unit with sewage disposal system:</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Connected to a public sewage disposal plant<br />[] 2 Connected to a private sewage disposal plant (septic tank, etc.)<br />[] 3 Other arrangements</div><br /><div class="i1">[] 4 Housing unit without sewage disposal system</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="PT01A038"><span class="em">Question 9 - Sewage disposal system:</span><br /><div class="i1"><span class="ital">Sewage disposal system </span>means the entire permanent installation permitting the evacuation of wastewater from the dwelling to the exterior.<br /><br /><span class="ital">Public sewage system</span> means the drainage system (for example in a city), which collects all the waste and channels it along a specific path. Septic tank is a specially structured receptacle enabling certain processes of disinfection, which, by means of a suitable pipeline, receives wastewater from one or a small number of dwellings.</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Housing unit with sewage disposal system connected to a public sewage disposal plant
2 Housing unit with sewage disposal system connected to a private sewage disposal plant (septic tank, etc.)
3 Other arrangements
4 Housing unit without sewage disposal system
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.
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<svar a="all" v="PT01A038"><div class="i1"><span class="em">Question 9 - Sewage disposal system</span></div><br /><div class="i2">As for sewage disposal system we understand all permanent installation that allows the evacuation of residual waters of a dwelling.<br />The following modalities were considered:<br /><br /><span class="em">Housing unit with sewage disposal system</span></div><br /><div class="i3">Connected to a public sewage disposal plant<br />Connected to a private sewage disposal plant (septic tank, etc.)<br />Other arrangements</div><br /><div class="i2"><span class="em">Housing unit without sewage disposal system</span></div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of sewage facilities in the dwelling.
Universe
Portugal 2001: Private households in usual residence [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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