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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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Use of toilet facilities (BO1992A_TOILETEX)

Data file: BOL1992_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 204
End: 204
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="BO92A043">Only for households that have toilet facilities<br /><br /><div class="i1">8.1 The use of the toilet facilities is:<br />[Question 8.1 was asked of persons in occupied private dwellings with toilet facilities, per Questions 1, 2 and 8.]</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Exclusive to this household <br />[] 2 Shared with other households</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Exclusive to this household
2 Shared with other households
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=" BO92A042" v="BO92A042 BO92A043 BO92A044"><span class="h2">Toilet facilities</span><br /><br /><span class="h3">Question 8. Does it have a toilet, water closet, latrine, or lavatory?</span><br /><br /><span class="em">1. Does have: with instantaneous flushing of the water.</span> By using a button, chain, etc.<br /><br /><span class="em">2. Does have: without flush. </span>This is the case with latrines or lavatories or so-called pit toilets in which there is not instant flushing of water available. This box will also be marked if a water closet is available, but it is not supplied with water by pipes. <br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 28]</span><br /><br /><span class="em">3. Doesn't have.</span> That is, the people in the household make use of public toilet facilities, yards, or the open air. In this case, continue on to question 9.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates if the household has exclusive or shared toilet facilities.
Universe
Bolivia 1992: Private, occupied dwellings with some type of toilet facilities [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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