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1970 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1970
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USA_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Source of water (US1970A_WATERSRC)

Data file: USA1970_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 219
End: 219
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">H19. Do you get water from -- </span><div class="i1">[] A public system (city water department, etc.) or private company?<br />[] An individual well?<br />[] Some other source (a spring, creek, river, cistern, etc.)?</div><p>"If a well provides water for six or more houses or apartments, mark a <span class="em">public system</span>. If a well provides water for five or fewer houses or apartments, mark <span class="em">an individual well.</span>"
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Public system or private company
2 Individual well
3 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 housing unit'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
United States 1970: Not group quarters [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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