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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 (FJ1996A_WATSUP)

Data file: FJI1996_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 181
End: 181
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>
Categories
Value Category
1 Metered
2 Communal standpipe
3 Rooftank
4 Well
5 River or creek
6 Other
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 the type of water supply.
Universe
Fiji 1996: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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