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2015 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Sierra Leone, 2015
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Reference ID
SLE_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Statistics Sierra Leone (SLL), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Aug 01, 2025
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  • SLE2015_PHC-H-H.dat
  • SLE2015_PHC-P-H.dat

Source of water supply for household use (SL2015A_WATSRC)

Data file: SLE2015_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 228
End: 229
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions H01, H06, and H07 were asked of all people. The rest of the questions in section III were recorded only for respondent's whose indicated type of residence was occupied housing units in question I15]</p>

<p>What is your principal source of water supply for [Questions H12-H13]</p>

<p>H13. Household use</p>
<div class="i1">[] 01. Piped indoors<br />[] 02. Piped in compound<br />[] 03. Public Tap<br />[] 04. Protected ordinary well<br />[] 05. Unprotected ordinary well<br />[] 06. Mechanical well<br />[] 07. River / riverbed / stream<br />[] 08. Neighbor's tap<br />[] 09. Sacket / bottled water<br />[] 10. Water vendor / bowser<br />[] 11. Other ____</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Piped indoors
02 Piped in compound
03 Public tap
04 Protected ordinary well
05 Protected spring
06 Unprotected ordinary well
07 Unprotected spring
08 Mechanical well
09 River, riverbed, or stream
10 Neighbour's tap
12 Water vendor or bowser
13 Other
99 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
<span class="h3"> Section 3: Housing facilities </span></p>

<p>186. Columns H01 to H19 relate to specific questions concerning the household. They are questions that relate to the household as a whole and not to individual members.</p>

<p><span class="em">H13 - Source of water supply for household use</span>
<br />199. Ask for the source of water supply for household use. This includes all household use of water excluding drinking such as laundry, bathing, cooking etc. If there is more than one source, record the most used water source.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the source of water supply for household use.
Universe
Sierra Leone 2015: Occupied private households [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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