VIII General Population and Housing Census, 1960 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 1960

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MEX_1960_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Dirección General de Estadística, Secretaría de Industria y Comercio, IPUMS

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Piped water availability (MX1960A_WATSRC)

Data file: MEX1960_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 156

End: 156

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

51. Is there piped water in the dwelling? Yes or No</p>
<div class="i1">____</div><svar v="MX60A005 MX60A006 MX60A007 MX60A008 MX60A009 MX60A015 MX60A016">Column 47-57. These columns are for the dwelling or house that the family occupies. Therefore, the answers will only be written in the row for the head of household.<br /></svar></p>

<p>Column 47: If the family that lives in the dwelling is the homeowner, make an X. If not, leave the column blank.

Categories

Value	Category
	NIU (not in universe)
1	Has piped water inside the dwelling
2	Has outside the dwelling but within the building
3	Doesn't have water service
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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether a dwelling has piped water inside.

Universe

Mexico 1960: Household heads [discrepancies: type I 1% and type II none]

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