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Population and Dwelling Count 1995 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 1995
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MEX_1995_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Sanitary service (MX1995A_TOILET)

Data file: MEX1995_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 199
End: 199
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="MX95A037"><span class="h3">1.9 Sanitary services</span><br />Do the occupants of this dwelling have:<br /><div class="i1">Read the options until getting an affirmative answer.<br /><br />[] 1 Lavatory or sanitary services?<br />[] 2 Toilet or latrine?<br />[] 3 (Septic) tank?<br />[] 4 Black hole or blind well?<br />[] 5 Do not have sanitary services? Go to 1.13</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Lavatory or sanitary service
2 Toilet or latrine
3 (Septic) tank
4 Black hole or blind pail
5 Does not have sanitary service
9 Unknown
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 a="all" v="MX95A037"><span class="em">1.9 Sanitary services</span><br /><br />The purpose of this question is to identify if a dwelling has an instillation or sanitary services, of the type of instillation not being important. Because of this, it is considered that dwellings that have a lavatory, sanitary services, latrine, toilet, tank, black hole or blind well, do have this service, whether or not it is found inside or outside, if it is exclusive of the occupants of a dwelling or if it is of common use with other dwellings within the same piece of land.<br /><br />[graphic of the question from the census form]<br /><br />The question has five answer options, which let it be known if a sanitary instillation exists or not, its type not important. Because of this, the options correspond to the instillations that are used with most frequency in order to name the different types of services or sanitary instillations.<br /><br />Lavatory or sanitary services have many names and do not always correspond to technical characteristics. Lavatory can be differentiated technically in the following manner:<br /><br />A hydraulic work that functions or acts as a means of water, that is, an instillation that permits the elimination of residual waters, commonly called sanitary, lavatory, bathroom or WC.<br /><br />A deposit of confinement, that is, it is an instillation that does not eliminate the waste, but rather they accumulate. In general, it has a limited life and is built away from rooms or the dwelling. Commonly they are called latrine, black hole, blind well or tank.<br /><br />When the informant answers that there is no sanitary service, circle code 5 and go to question 1.13, Drainage.<br /><br />In plots of land where there are many dwellings and they respond to you with expressions like, "we use the latrine at my father's house" or "we share the bathroom with another family," consider that the dwelling does have sanitary services.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 71]</span><br /><br />If there is a regional term for naming this service, mention it in the question as a synonym.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates availability of sanitary service.
Universe
Mexico 1995: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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