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XIV National Population and III Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1973
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Reference ID
COL_1973_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Water source (CO1973A_WATERSRC)

Data file: COL1973_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 202
End: 202
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CO73A028"><span class="em">5. Water</span><br /><br />What type of water service is available to this household?<br /><div class="i1">By pipe</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Exclusively for this household<br />[] 2 Shared with others</div><br /><div class="i1">[] 3 River or spring<br />[] 4 Well or cistern, reservoir<br />[] 5 Public trough<br />[] 6 Tanked in by car or truck<br />[] 7 Rainwater<br />[] 8 Other</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 By pipe, exclusively for this hh
2 By pipe, shared with others
3 River or spring
4 Well or cistern, reservoir
5 Public trough
6 Tanked in by car or truck
7 Rainwater
8 Other
9 Unknown
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="CO73A028"><span class="em">Question No. 5. Water</span><br /><br />[Below the text is a form.]<br /><br />Read the question with the alternatives that the form presents. Mark "x" in the square corresponding to the obtained information<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 33]</span><br /><br />Only when a household has water facilities through a pipe, determine the use of this service, that is, if it is of exclusive use of the household, or is it is shared by other households.<br /><br />If it is exclusive use mark "x" in box No. 1.<br /><br />If it is shared mark "x" in box 2.<br /><br />In the case that a household gets water from a source different than the alternatives named in the form, mark "x" in the box "others".<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of water source.
Universe
Colombia 1973: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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