1996 Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Fiji, 1996

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FJI_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Fiji Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

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Water supply dries up (FJ1996A_WATDRY)

Data file: FJI1996_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 182

End: 182

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="FJ96A031" v="FJ96A031 FJ96A032">H4. Main water supply<br /><div class="i1">[] 1. Metered<br />[] 2. From a communal standpipe<br />[] 3. Rooftank<br />[] 4. Well<br />[] 5. River or creek<br />[] 6. Other, specify</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="FJ96A032">Does the household's water supply ever dry up?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1. Never<br />[] 2. Sometimes<br />[] 3. Every year</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Never
2	Sometimes
3	Every year

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="FJ96A031 FJ96A032">185. Question H4 - Main water supply<br /><br />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 />'Drying up' does not include occasional failures of a municipal or communal piped water system.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates how often the water supply dries up.

Universe

Fiji 1996: All households

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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