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VI Censo de Población y V de Vivienda, 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Ecuador, 2001
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ECU_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS
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Sanitary service (EC2001A_WASTEWTR)

Data file: ECU2001_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="EC01A071">5. The sanitary service available to this household is:<br /><div class="i1">[ ] 1 Bathroom for the exclusive use of the household<br />[ ] 2 Bathroom shared by various households<br />[ ] 3 Latrine<br />[ ] 4 None</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Exclusive use
2 Common use
3 Latrine
4 None
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 a="all" v="EC01A071"><span class="em">Question 5.- The toilet facilities that the household has are:</span><br /><br />[There is a picture of question 5 from this section of the enumeration form.]<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 30]</span><br /><br />Mark box 1. <span class="em">toilet for the exclusive use of the household</span>, if it is used only by the members of the household that you are investigating.<br /><br />Mark box 2. <span class="em">toilet for the common use of various households</span>, when the toilet facilities are used by the members of two or more households in the same dwelling and also when they are used by the households of various dwellings.<br /><br />Mark box 3. <span class="em">latrine</span> if the place for depositing excrement is a hole, generally covered by an outhouse.<br /><br />Mark box 4. <span class="em">doesn't have</span>, if the household doesn't have any of the alternatives previously mentioned.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of toilet facilities the household has and whether the toilet is for the exclusive use of household.
Universe
Ecuador 2001: Occupied private dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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