1986 Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Fiji, 1986

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FJI_1986_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Fiji Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

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Does the household's water supply dry up? (FJ1986A_WATDRY)

Data file: FJI1986_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 175

End: 175

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="FJ86A035"><div class="i1">Does the household's water supply dry up:</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Never<br />[] 2 Sometimes<br />[] 3 Every year</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Never
2	Sometimes
3	Every year
8	Unknown
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

<svar a="all" v="FJ86A034 FJ86A035 "><span class="em">Question 4 - Water supply</span><br /><br />208. We are concerned with the supply on which the household mainly relies -- from which the household gets its water for most of the time.<br /><br />209. 'Drying up' does not include occasional failures by a municipal or communal piped water system.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the frequency a household's water supply dries up.

Universe

Fiji 1986: Households with water supply system [discrepancies: type I trace; type II 0.3%]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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