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General Population Census IV and Housing III - IPUMS Subset

Uruguay, 1975
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URY_1975_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Sewage disposal (UY1975A_SEWAGE)

Data file: URY1975_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 142
End: 142
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="UY75A052">2.2 Sewage disposal<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Public system<br />[] 2 Septic tank, cesspool<br />[] 3 Other (hole in the ground, surface, etc.)<br />[] 0 Does not apply (doesn't have sanitary service)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 Does not have
1 Public network
2 Septic tank/cesspool
3 Other
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
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 v="UY75A049 UY75A050 UY75A051 UY75A052 UY75A053 UY75A054 UY75A055 UY75A056 UY75A057 UY75A058 UY75A059 UY75A060"><span class="em">F. Information about the private home</span><br />Once the dwelling part is finished, you will ask questions referring to the Census home.<br /><br />Remember that if in a dwelling inhabited by more than one private home you should fill out as many documents as there are homes.<br /><br />Write in each one of the documents the information about each of the homes. You should not repeat information in Section "E. Information about the private dwelling".<br /><br />Cancel this section upon enumerating the second and following homes that share this dwelling.<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="UY75A052"><div class="i1">Disposal of the sanitary service</div><br /><div class="i2">If the sanitary service is not connected to the public system, a septic tank, or black well, you will register it as 3 "Other".<br /><br />If a home does not have sanitary service, in disposal you will register:<br />0 "Does not apply".<br /><br />141 Consider below the following cases: An apartment is occupied by a single home. The sanitary service has a cistern and it is connected to the public system. Register this situation.</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 43]</span><br /><br /><div class="i2">[Below the text are two charts, one of them with boxes "With instant discharging water", "Private of the home" and "Public system" marked.]<br /><br />142. Mr. Rodriquez lives in an old house with his spouse, two children and a lodger to whom is provided accommodations and meals. The house has a sanitary service with cistern (discharging water) and a waste pipe into a black well-built underneath. Register this case in the Census document:</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the dwelling's sewage disposal type.
Universe
Uruguay 1975: Occupied households [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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