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VI Censo Nacional de Población y II de Vivienda 1963 - IPUMS Subset

Costa Rica, 1963
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CRI_1963_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Dirección General de Estadísticas y Censos, Minnesota Population Center
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Sewer facilities (CR1963A_0020)

Data file: CRI1963-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 140
End: 141
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
8. Sewer facilities

(mark only one box)

[] 1-2 Sewer
[] 3-4 Septic tank
[] 5-6 Concrete Cesspool (Pozo negro de planchet)
[] 7-8 Wooden Cesspool (Pozo negro de madera)
[] 9-0 Other
[] 11 Does not have
Categories
Value Category
1 Other for this and other dwellings
2 Sewer for this dwelling only
3 Sewer for this and others
4 Septic tank for this [dwelling]
5 Septic tank for this and others
6 Concrete pit toilet for this [dwelling]
7 Concrete pit toilet for this and others
8 Wooden pit toilet for this [dwelling]
9 Wooden pit toilet for this and others
10 Other for this dwelling only
11 None
99 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
Box No. 8.- Sewer facilities

Mark with an "X" the box that identifies the type of toilet facilities that the Dwelling has.

Sewer: When the apparatus is connected to a public system.

Septic Tank: When the apparatus is connected to a system that consists of a cement tank, in which the "negros" [black] waters are eliminated by special procedures.

Cesspool: (pit toilet): When the Dwelling only is provided a pit more or less deep, over which is a hut. The cesspool can be: [p. 30]

1) of Concrete: When the floor and the walls are concrete.

2) of Wood: when the floor or the walls, or both wooden.


Other: Any other means of toilet services no thought of here.

Does not have: When the Dwelling is not supplied toilet services.

Box 9.- Use of Toilet Services

You should ask if the toilet services are for exclusive use of the occupants of the Dwelling ("Only For This Dwelling") or if it is also used with equal right by those of other Dwellings ("For This and Other Dwellings"), and mark with an "X" the respective box.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the nature of the dwelling's sewer facilities, if available.
Universe
Private dwellings

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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