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Fifth Housing and Population Census Pakistan 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1998
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PAK_1998_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Population Census Organization, Minnesota Population Center
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Source of drinking water, outside house (PK1998A_0037)

Data file: PAK1998-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 154
End: 154
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Source of drinking water

Inside house


[] 1 Tap
[] 2 Hand pump
[] 3 Well


Outside house


[] 1 Tap
[] 2 Hand pump
[] 3 Well
[] 4 Pond
[] 5 Others
Categories
Value Category
1 Piped water
2 Hand pump
3 Well
4 Pond
5 Other
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
Sources of drinking water
There are three main sources of drinking water inside the house and five sources outside of the house. Whichever source is told, fill the oval related to it. These details of these main sources are following.


Nul (Tap)
Nul means a source of water which the municipal water supply or tube well provides through pipe and it is used for drinking.

Hand Pump
Hand pump means hand-used machine with which water is lifted through the pipe fixed under the earth.

Well
Well is a big straight pit or hole under the ground made by digging it up to the level of water. This can be cemented or muddy and covered or open. The water can be taken from it in various ways. Sometimes the hand pumps is fixed on the open well in that case also it will be called well.

Others
If the source is other than the ones mentioned above, fill the oval related to others.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the source of drinking water outside the house.
Universe
Households with source of drinking water outside the house

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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