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Eighth General Population and Housing Census, 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Suriname, 2012
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SUR_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
General Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Solid waste disposal (SR2012A_TRASH)

Data file: SUR2012_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 154
End: 155
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Household module</span></p>

<p><span class="h2">Part 3: Facilities available to the household</span>
<br />[Applies to questions 10 - 18]</p>

<p>13. What is this household's main manner of disposing of its rubbish?</p>
<div class="i1">N.B.: Please provide only one answer.<br /><br />[] 1 Collected once a week<br />[] 2 Collected twice a week<br />[] 3 Collected more than twice a week<br />[] 4 Put in a waste container<br />[] 5 Burn it<br />[] 6 Bury it<br />[] 7 Take it to a disposal site<br />[] 8 Throw it into a river / gutter / ditch<br />[] 9 Dump it elsewhere<br />[] 10 Other, namely ____<br />[] 97 Don't know<br />[] 99 No response</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Collected once a week
02 Collected twice a week
03 Collected more than twice a week
04 Put in a waste container
05 Burn it
06 Bury it
07 Take it to a disposal site
08 Throw it into a river, gutter, or ditch
09 Dump it elsewhere
10 Other
99 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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the method of removal for solid waste.
Universe
Suriname 2012: All households

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Concept
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