Literal question
2.2 Sewage disposal
[] 1 Public system
[] 2 Septic tank, cesspool
[] 3 Other (hole in the ground, surface, etc.)
[] 0 Does not apply (doesn't have sanitary service)
Interviewer instructions
F. Information about the private home
Once the dwelling part is finished, you will ask questions referring to the Census home.
Remember that if in a dwelling inhabited by more than one private home you should fill out as many documents as there are homes.
Write in each one of the documents the information about each of the homes. You should not repeat information in Section "E. Information about the private dwelling".
Cancel this section upon enumerating the second and following homes that share this dwelling.
Disposal of the sanitary service
If the sanitary service is not connected to the public system, a septic tank, or black well, you will register it as 3 "Other".
If a home does not have sanitary service, in disposal you will register:
0 "Does not apply".
141 Consider below the following cases: An apartment is occupied by a single home. The sanitary service has a cistern and it is connected to the public system. Register this situation.
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[Below the text are two charts, one of them with boxes "With instant discharging water", "Private of the home" and "Public system" marked.]
142. Mr. Rodríquez lives in an old house with his spouse, two children and a lodger to whom is provided accommodations and meals. The house has a sanitary service with cistern (discharging water) and a waste pipe into a black well-built underneath. Register this case in the Census document:
