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VII Recenseamento Geral do Brasil. Censo Demográfico de 1960. - IPUMS Subset

Brazil, 1960
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BRA_1960_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Servico Nacional de Recenseamento. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, IPUMS
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Water supply (BR1960A_WATER)

Data file: BRA1960_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 122
End: 122
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="BR60A008"><span class="h3">E. Water supply</span><br /><br /><div class="i1">General system:</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 19 with interior plumbing<br />[] 20 with exterior plumbing</div><br /><div class="i1">Well or spring:</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 21 with plumbing<br />[] 22 without plumbing<br />[] 23 other form</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 System with exterior plumbing
2 Well or spring with plumbing
3 Well or spring without plumbing
4 Other
5 System with internal plumbing
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="BR60A008"><span class="h3">Question E - Water source</span><br /><br />This question asks about how water is supplied to the dwelling, based on the following classification:<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">General System</span><br /><br /><span class="em">With indoor plumbing</span> - when there is piped water inside the dwelling connected to a general system;<br /><span class="em">With outdoor plumbing</span> - when the dwelling has piped water connected to a general system without internal distribution.<br /><br /><span class="em">Well or Spring</span><br /><br /><span class="em">With plumbing</span> - when there is plumbing inside the dwelling connected to a well or spring;<br /><span class="em">Without plumbing</span> - when the dwelling has its own well or spring without the water being piped inside;<br /><span class="em">Some other form of water supply</span> - when the dwelling is supplied by a public water source, well or spigot located outside the dwelling.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable describes the source of each housing unit's water supply. The basic distinction is whether or not the household had access to piped water, generally from a public distribution system. In the absence of piped water, the WATER variable indicates the source of water in most samples.
Universe
Brazil 1960: Not group quarters, not improvised dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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