XII Recenseamento Geral da População e II Recenseamento Geral da Habitação 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Portugal, 1981

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Reference ID

PRT_1981_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Portugal Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Sewage disposal system (PT1981A_0045)

Data file: PRT1981-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 142

End: 142

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

[Questions 1-13 were asked in cases of a housing unit or a collective living quarter, except hotels or similar and institutions of "other type" -- that is occupied as a usual residence or for seasonal use, per questions A, B]

6. Sewage disposal system:

[] 2 Housing unit without sewage disposal system
[] Housing unit with sewage disposal system:

[] 4 Connected to a public sewage disposal plant
[] 6 Connected to a private sewage disposal plant (septic tank, etc.)
[] 8 Other sewage arrangements (open pit, ditches, brook, etc.)

Categories

Value	Category
1	Housing unit without sewage disposal system
2	Housing unit with sewage disposal system connected to a public sewage disposal plant.
3	Housing unit with sewage disposal system connected to a private sewage disposal plant (septic tank, etc.)
4	Other sewage disposal arrangements
8	Unknown
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

[Questions 1-13 were asked in cases of a housing unit or a collective living quarter, except hotels or similar and institutions of "other type," that is occupied as a usual residence or for seasonal use, per questions A, B]

Question 6 - Sewage disposal system

As for sewage disposal system we understand all permanent installations that allow the evacuation of residual waters of a dwelling through a determined way.

A septic tank is a special structure recipient that, making use of a particular piping, collects the waste of one or a few housing units, and requires particular procedures for its maintenance.

Description

Definition

This variable describes the sewage disposal system of the housing unit.

Universe

Non-collective occupied households

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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