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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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Drinking water source (CO1993A_WATSRC)

Data file: COL1993_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 197
End: 197
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CO93A028"><span class="em">18. Water for preparing meals comes from:</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Piped<br />[] 2 Well or cistern<br />[] 3 Public tank/tap<br />[] 4 River or stream<br />[] 5 Rainwater<br />[] 6 Bottled water</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Piped
2 Well or cistern
3 Public tank/tap
4 River or stream
5 Rainwater
6 Bottled water
8 Unknown
9 NIU (some deviation)
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="CO93A028"><span class="em">18. Water for preparing meals comes from:</span><br /><br />When two or more sources are used in the same household (for example from a water system and well water; cistern truck and rain water) explain to the interviewed person that the option to select is the one that it used most frequently for preparing their meals.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 161]</span><br /><br />[At the top of the page is a form.]<br /><br />Take into account the following criteria:<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Public well</span><br />It is a faucet, pump or faucet located in a place in which all persons of the area have free access, for supplying water.<br /><br /><span class="em">Cistern Tank</span><br />It is a vehicle adapted for storing and distributing water.<br /><br /><span class="em">Water seller</span><br />A person who brings water in recipients and sells it for consumption in dwellings.<br /><br /><span class="em">River, ditch or spring</span><br />When water comes directly from a natural current.<br /><br /><span class="em">Rain water</span><br />It is water caught and stored in tanks, baskets, or other recipients.<br /><br /><span class="em">Bottled water</span><br />It is that which has had a previous purification treatment done by company experts and that is obtained in commerce in demijohns, bottles or bags.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the source of drinking water for the dwelling.
Universe
Colombia 1993: Occupied dwellings with people present at enumeration [discrepancies: type I 0.6%; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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