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Census of Population and Housing 1990 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1990
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USA_1990_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota Population Center
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Source of water (US1990A_0063)

Data file: USA1990-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 218
End: 218
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
H15. Do you get water from --

[] A public system such as a city water department, or private company?
[] An individual drilled well?
[] An individual dug well?
[] Some other source such as a spring, creek, river, cistern, etc.?


[If a well provides water for five or more houses, apartments, or mobile homes, mark A public system. If a well provides water for four or fewer houses, apartments, or mobile homes, fill one of the circles for Individual well. Drilled wells, or small diameter wells, are usually less than 1½ feet in diameter. Dug wells are generally hand dug and are larger than 1½ feet wide.]
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Public system or private company
3 Individual well, drilled
4 Individual well, dug
5 Other source
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the source of the dwelling's water supply, and whether the unit supplied its own water via an individual well or was attached to a larger public or private system.
Universe
Private, occupied and vacant dwellings

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Concept
Name Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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