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1990 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1990
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USA_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Source of water (US1990A_WATERSRC)

Data file: USA1990_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 262
End: 262
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="US90A063"><span class="em">H15. Do you get water from -- </span><br /><div class="i1">[] A public system such as a city water department, or private company?<br />[] An individual drilled well?<br />[] An individual dug well?<br />[] Some other source such as a spring, creek, river, cistern, etc.?</div><br /><br />[If a well provides water for five or more houses, apartments, or mobile homes, mark A public system. If a well provides water for four or fewer houses, apartments, or mobile homes, fill one of the circles for Individual well. Drilled wells, or small diameter wells, are usually less than 1 feet in diameter. Dug wells are generally hand dug and are larger than 1 feet wide.]<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Public system or private company
3 Individual well, drilled
4 Individual well, dug
5 Other source
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
United States 1990: Private, occupied and vacant dwellings [discrepancies: none]

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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