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XVI National Population and V de Housing Census1993 - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1993 - 1994
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), Minnesota Population Center
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Toilet facilities (CO1993A_0024)

Data file: COL1993-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 135
End: 135
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
14. The toilet facilities used by the household are:

[] 1 Flush toilet
[] 2 Latrine
[] 3 Expelled to running water like ditch or stream (bajamar)
[] 4 Doesn't have toilet facilities (continue with 16)
Categories
Value Category
1 Flush toilet
2 Latrine
3 Bajamar [expelled to ditch or stream]
4 Doesn't have
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
14. The toilet facilities used by the household are:

Toilet facilities are understood to be the system used for the elimination of excreta.

[Below the text is a form.]

If the response is "does not have toilet facilities", mark option 4 and go to question 16, do not ask question 15.

Take into account the following definitions:


Flush toilet
It refers to a toilet bowel with elbow pipe, that needs to circulate water to eliminate the fecal material.

Latrine
When the fecal materials fall directly without circulation of water into a pit toilet.

Expelled to running water like ditch or stream (bajamar)
When the fecal materials fall directly into a current of water like a ditch, river or sea.

Does not have facilities
When a household does not have any type of toilet facilities; it is also named open country (campo abierto). Remember that if you marked this option, you should continue with question 16 and leave 15 blank.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the toilet facilities that the dwelling had.
Universe
Occupied dwellings with people present at enumeration

concept

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