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Censos Nacionales IX de Población y V de Vivienda 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Costa Rica, 2000
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CRI_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS
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Source of water (CR2000A_WATSRC)

Data file: CRI2000_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 219
End: 219
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="CR00A038"><span class="em">11. The water used for drinking comes from</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 an aqueduct of the Water and Sewer Company (<span class="lang">A y A</span>)<br />[] 2 a rural or municipal aqueduct<br />[] 3 a well<br />[] 4 a river, stream or spring<br />[] 5 rain or others</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Piped by Water and Sewer Company
2 Rural or municipal aqueduct
3 Well
4 River, stream or spring
5 Rain or 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.
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="CR00A038"><span class="h3">Question 11: Origin of water</span><br /><br />With this question the origin of the water that is consumed in the dwelling will be determined.<br /><br />Mark with "X" only one of the circles.<br /><br />[To the right of the text is a form.]<br /><br />If the dwelling has two or more sources of water supply, write down only the most used.<br /><br />The first two categories are characterized as being <span class="em">collective answers</span>.<br /><br /><span class="em">Water system of the Water and Sewer Company (<span class="lang">A y A</span>)</span>: The service of water comes from a public system administrated by the Costa Rican Institute of Water and Sewer Systems.<br /><br /><span class="em">Rural or municipal aqueduct</span>: The water service comes from a public system administrated by a Committee of Rural Water Systems, the Municipality or a company of public services.<br /><br />The following options are characterized because they are <span class="em">individual answers</span>.<br /><br /><span class="em">Well</span>: Owned or community, from a well that extracts water from the ground through the use of an electric or manual pump, or using a bucket or recipient, tied to the end of a rope.<br /><br />[Below the text is a picture of a well.]<br /><br /><span class="em">River, stream or spring</span>: The water is taken from a river or ditch and is brought to the dwelling by carrying or through some type of tube.<br /><br />[Below the text is a picture of a river.]<br /><br /><span class="em">Rain and others</span>: The largest part of the water used in the dwelling is rain, it has been caught in tanks (<span class="lang">estañones</span>) from the gutters of the roof, is received from water trucks, etc.<br /><br />[Below the text is a picture of a house in the rain.]<br /><br /><span class="em">Keep in mind</span>:<br /><br />A dwelling can have piped water if the origin is a water system.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the dwelling's source of drinking water.
Universe
Costa Rica 2000: Private, occupied dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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