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National Census of Housing and Population 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Bolivia, 1992
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BOL_1992_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and Coordination, Republic of Bolivia, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Toilet wastewater connection (BO1992A_SEWER)

Data file: BOL1992_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 205
End: 205
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="BO92A044"><div class="i1">8.2 The wastewater from the toilet facilities flows to:<br />[Question 8.2 was asked of persons in occupied private dwellings with toilet facilities, per Questions 1, 2 and 8.]</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Public sewer<br />[] 2 Septic tank<br />[] 3 Other (pit, surface, etc.)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Public sewer
2 Septic tank
3 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="BO92A042 BO92A043 BO92A044"><span class="em">Only for those households that have toilet services.</span><br /><br />If they have such services, the following should be asked:<br /><br /><span class="em">8.1</span> If it is for the private use of the household occupants or if they share with other households, mark the appropriate box.<br /><br /><span class="em">8.2 </span>It will also be necessary to ask about the runoff of toilet services. Mark whether it is through:<br /><br /><span class="em">1. Public sewer. </span>When the elimination is carried out through an exterior piping system, commonly known as canalization or sewer.<br /><br /><span class="em">2. Septic chamber.</span> This is a waterproofed reservoir for waste waters, generally made out of reinforced cement.<br /><br /><span class="em">3. Others.</span> When these waters go to a pit toilet, hole in the ground, to the surface, etc.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the household's toilet wastewater connection.
Universe
Bolivia 1992: Private, occupied dwellings with some type of toilet facilities [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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