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XVI National Population and V de Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1993 - 1994
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COL_1993_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Toilet facilities (CO1993A_TOILET)

Data file: COL1993_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 193
End: 193
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CO93A024"><span class="em">14. The toilet facilities used by the household are:</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Flush toilet<br />[] 2 Latrine<br />[] 3 Expelled to running water like ditch or stream (<span class="lang">bajamar</span>)<br />[] 4 Doesn't have toilet facilities (continue with 16)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Flush toilet
2 Latrine
3 Bajamar [expelled to ditch or stream]
4 Doesn't have
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="CO93A024"><span class="em">14. The toilet facilities used by the household are:</span><br /><br />Toilet facilities are understood to be the system used for the elimination of excreta.<br /><br />[Below the text is a form.]<br /><br />If the response is "does not have toilet facilities", mark option 4 and go to question 16, do not ask question 15.<br /><br />Take into account the following definitions:<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Flush toilet</span><br />It refers to a toilet bowel with elbow pipe, that needs to circulate water to eliminate the fecal material.<br /><br /><span class="em">Latrine</span><br />When the fecal materials fall directly without circulation of water into a pit toilet.<br /><br /><span class="em"> Expelled to running water like ditch or stream (<span class="lang">bajamar</span>)</span><br />When the fecal materials fall directly into a current of water like a ditch, river or sea.<br /><br /><span class="em">Does not have facilities</span><br />When a household does not have any type of toilet facilities; it is also named open country (<span class="lang">campo abierto</span>). Remember that if you marked this option, you should continue with question 16 and leave 15 blank.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the toilet facilities that the dwelling had.
Universe
Colombia 1993: Occupied dwellings with people present at enumeration [discrepancies: type I 0.6%; type II none]

concept

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