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XII General Population and Housing Census, 2000 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2000
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MEX_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Availability of water (MX2000A_WATSRC)

Data file: MEX2000_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 216
End: 216
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="MX00A018">6. Access to water<br /><br />Read all of the options until you get an affirmative answer.<br />Circle only one answer.<br /><br /><div class="i1">1 Running water inside the dwelling<br />2 Running water outside the dwelling but on the land<br />3 Running water from a public faucet or hydrant<br />4 Running water that is carried from another dwelling<br />5 Tanked in by truck<br />6 Water from a well, river, lake, stream or other</div><br /></svar>
<br />Answers 3, 4, 5, 6 continue with number 8
Categories
Value Category
1 Piped water inside the dwelling
2 Piped water outside of the dwelling, but within the property
3 Piped water from a public tap (or hydrant)
4 Piped water brought in from another dwelling
5 Tanked in by truck
6 Water from a well, river, lake, stream or other
9 Not specified
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="MX00A018"><span class="em">6. Access to Water</span><br /><br />This question distinguishes dwellings which have piped water from those that get water from a different source.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the dwelling has piped water.
Universe
Mexico 2000: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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