IHSN Survey Catalog
  • Home
  • Microdata Catalog
  • Citations
  • Login
    Login
    Home / Central Data Catalog / MEX_2020_PHC_V01_M_V7.5_A_IPUMS / variable [H]
central

Population and Housing Census 2020 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2020
Get Microdata
Reference ID
MEX_2020_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
Sep 03, 2025
Last modified
Sep 03, 2025
Page views
3943
  • Study Description
  • Data Dictionary
  • Get Microdata
  • Data files
  • MEX2020_PHC-H-H.dat
  • MEX2020_PHC-P-H.dat

Raised water tank (MX2020A_WATTANK)

Data file: MEX2020_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 253
End: 253
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">I. Characteristics of the housing unit</span></p>

<p>15. Utilities: In this housing unit, is there a:</p>
<div class="i1">Read all options and circle one code only for each option</div><div class="i1">Water tank?</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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
<span class="h1">15. Extended questionnaire</span>
<br />This section of the questionnaire contains the questions you must apply in the households you have registered as: Single house on the land, house sharing land with other(s); duplex house; apartment in a building; housing unit in neighborhood or tenement and housing unit in the rooftop room of a building. That is, with classes 1 to 6 of private housing unit class.</p>

<p><span class="ital">14. Unpiped water</span>
<br />The question allows for identifying where people who do not have piped water in their homes obtain it and, consequently, have to carry it or have it delivered in another way. So this question applies to homes where there are no pipes, faucets, or hoses from where water can be obtained.</p>

<p>Read the question and each of the options until you get an answer and mark the corresponding code.</p>

<p>Consider the following definitions and criteria:</p>

<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>

<p>A well is an excavation from where water is obtained. It can be located in or away from the housing unit; it can be their own, from a neighbor, or communal. The important thing is that the residents remove the water from there to transport it to their homes using buckets or other containers.</p>

<p>A community faucet is a water tap located in a public space, where people carry the liquid to their homes with buckets or other containers.</p>

<p>[Images omitted]</p>

<p>Another housing unit means that the residents get their water from a neighbor who has piped water, carrying it.</p>

<p>They carry it from a river, stream, or lake when people remove the liquid from these places and take it in containers to their homes.</p>

<p><span class="pg">[p. 244]</span></p>

<p>[Images omitted]</p>

<p>It is brought by a water pipe, when a water truck carries it to or near the housing unit, depositing it in basins or drums; residents then take it with buckets, pails, or other containers.</p>

<p>[Image omitted]</p>

<p>Rainwater harvesting is the situation in which the residents of the housing unit accumulate this water in drums, basins, or other containers and then carry it away to use in their daily activities.</p>

<p>Remember that if the water obtained from wells, another home, a pipe, or rainwater is stored in cisterns, reservoirs, pools, or water tanks that have pipes or hoses to supply water to other facilities in the home and, therefore, do not have to carry it, then it is piped water.</p>

<p>If necessary, clarify this situation with the respondent, since it is very important to know if they have to carry water or not, regardless of the source of the liquid, which will be registered with the question water supply or unpiped water.</p>

<p><span class="pg">[p. 245]</span></p>

<p>The question unpiped water is presented in the census manager as follows:
<br />[Figure omitted: image with text]

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the dwelling has a raised water tank.
Universe
Mexico 2020: Private dwellings built for habitation [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Back to Catalog
IHSN Survey Catalog

© IHSN Survey Catalog, All Rights Reserved.