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VI Censo de Población y V de Vivienda, 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Ecuador, 2001
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ECU_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Sewer system (EC2001A_SEWER)

Data file: ECU2001_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 199
End: 199
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v=" EC01A052">5. How does the household remove the sewage or wastewater from the dwelling?<br /><div class="i1">[ ] 1 Through a public drain or sewer<br />[ ] 2 Black well<br />[ ] 3 Septic Tank<br />[ ] 4 Other form (specify) ____</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Public drain or sewer
2 Black well
3 Septic tank
4 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="EC01A052"><span class="em">Question 5.- How is sewage or waste water eliminated from this dwelling?</span><br /><br />[There is a picture of question 5 from this section of the enumeration form.]<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Through a public sewage network.- </span>If the elimination of sewage or wastewater is through an underground or public drain.<br /><br />[There is a drawing representing this option and showing an x in box 1.]</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 23]</span><br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">Through a pit toilet or latrine.- </span>If the sewage or wastewater is disposed of in a hole.<br /><br />[There is a drawing representing this option and showing an x in box 2.]<br /><br /><span class="em">Through a septic tank.- </span>If the sewage or wastewater accumulates in a tank where the solids settle and the liquids seep into the ground.<br /><br /><span class="em">In some other way (specify).- </span>If the dwelling has some infrastructure for evacuating sewage or wastewater to a stream, river, or irrigation ditch that isn't connected to a public network, pit toilet, or septic tank, example: a private sewer that drains into a river or drainage ditch or spills into wasteland or into the street.<br /><br />[There is a drawing representing this option and showing an x in box 4.]</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable reports each housing unit's method of sewage disposal: by a public system (run by the government or a private organization), a septic tank or cesspool, or another method (e.g., via an individual line running into a river or pond, or an outdoor privy).
Universe
Ecuador 2001: Occupied private dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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