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General Population Census VI and Housing IV - IPUMS Subset

Uruguay, 1985
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URY_1985_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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General Office of Statistics and Censuses, IPUMS
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Sewage disposal (UY1985A_SEWER)

Data file: URY1985_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 210
End: 210
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="UY85A040 UY85A041 UY85A042 UY85A043 UY85A055 UY85A056 UY85A057 UY85A058 UY85A059 UY85A060 UY85A061 UY85A062 UY85A063 UY85A064 UY85A065 UY85A066 UY85A067 UY85A068 UY85A069 UY85A070 UY85A071 UY85A072"><span class="h3">F. Information about the private home</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="UY85A057" v="UY85A055 UY85A057">2.2 The disposal of sewage is done by<br /><div class="i1"><span class="ital">Only for those who have sanitary service.</span><br /><br />General network</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Public<br />[] 2 Private</div><br /><div class="i1">[] 3 Septic tank, cesspool<br />[] 4 Other (hole in the wall, surface, etc.)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Public network
2 Private network
3 Septic tank/cesspool
4 Other
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
<svar v="UY85A055 UY85A056 UY85A057 UY85A058 UY85A059 UY85A060 UY85A061 UY85A062 UY85A064 UY85A065 UY85A066 UY85A067 UY85A068 UY85A069 UY85A070 UY85A071 UY85A072 UY85A074"><span class="h3">F. Information about the private home</span><br /><br />Once the dwelling part is finished, you will ask questions referring to the Census home.<br /><br />Remember that in a dwelling inhabited by more than one private home you should fill out as many documents as there are homes.<br /><br />Write in each one of the documents the information about each of the homes. You should not repeat information in Section E. Information of the private dwelling.<br /><br />Cancel this section upon enumerating the second and following homes that share this dwelling.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="UY85A055 UY85A056 UY85A057"><span class="em">2. Sanitary service</span><br /><div class="i1">Do you have a water "<span class="lang">taza turca</span>" [squat toilet], latrine, etc.?</div><br /><br />Ask the question and mark the box corresponding to the answer you receive.<br /><br />2.1 Use of sanitary service<br /><div class="i1">Is the use of sanitary services: private to this home?</div><br /><br />The use will be private when the sanitary service is used only by members of a family that you are enumerating.<br /><br />When it is shared with members of one or more other homes you will mark box 6.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 29]</span><br /><br />In general, when a dwelling is shared by many homes, you will find if they use the sanitary service in common.<br /><br />If a dwelling does not have sanitary service, go to question No. 3 and do not make notations in use or in disposal of sewage.<br /><br />2.2 Disposal of the sewage<br />Ask the questions, reading the different alternatives, until you get an affirmative response.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 30]</span><br /><br />[An example has been omitted.]<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the method of the household's sewage disposal.
Universe
Uruguay 1985: Occupied private dwellings with dwellers present and with a toilet [discrepancies: type I 6.4%, type II none]

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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