1990 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 1990

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PRI_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS

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Source of water (PR1990A_WATERSRC)

Data file: PRI1990_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 200

End: 200

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="PR90A063"><span class="em">H14. Do you get water from --</span><br /><div class="i1">1 [ ] A public system?<br />2 [ ] An individual well?<br />3 [ ] A cistern, tanks, or drums?<br />4 [ ] A spring or some other source, such as a river, irrigation canal, etc.?</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
	NIU (not in universe)
1	Public system or private company
3	Individual well, drilled
6	Cistern, tanks, or drums
8	Spring or 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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the source of the dwelling'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

Puerto Rico 1990: Private dwellings [discrepancies: none]

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