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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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Water service system (EC2001A_WATER)

Data file: ECU2001_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 197
End: 197
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
4. Water service to the dwelling:</p>

<p><svar a="all" v=" EC01A050"><div class="i1">A. How does the household acquire water for the dwelling?</div><br /><div class="i2">[ ] 1 Piped water inside the dwelling<br />[ ] 2 Piped water outside the dwelling but inside the building, plot, or land<br />[ ] 3 Piped water outside the dwelling<br />[ ] 4 No piped water, acquires water through other methods.</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Piped water inside the dwelling
2 Piped water outside the dwelling but inside the building
3 Piped water outside the building
4 No piped water
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="EC01A050 EC01A051"><span class="em">Question 4.- Water supply to the dwelling</span><br /><br />[There is a picture of question 4 from this section of the enumeration form.]<br /><br />This question is made up of two parts: a. How is the water for the dwelling obtained? and b. Where does the water received come from? For each part, one and only one answer is admissible.<br /><br /><span class="em">A.- How is the water for the dwelling obtained?</span><br /><br />Mark box 1, <span class="em">by pipes inside the dwelling</span>, if the pipes are in the interior of the dwelling and are supplied with water directly.<br /><br />[There is a drawing representing this type of water supply.]<br /><br />Mark box 2, <span class="em">by pipes outside of the dwelling but within the building, lot, or grounds</span>, when to access the water supply one has to go out from the dwelling to another place in the building or lot, where the water faucet or tap is located.<br /><br />[There is a drawing representing this type of water supply.]<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 22]</span><br /><br />Mark box 3, <span class="em">by pipes outside the building, lot, or grounds</span>, when to access the water supply one must travel to someplace other than the building, lot, or grounds where the dwelling is located. Example: public faucet, basin, etc.<br /><br />[There is a drawing representing this type of water supply.]<br /><br />Mark box 4, <span class="em">water not received through pipes, but rather by other means</span>, when the dwelling is supplied with water that is not piped. Example: provided manually and directly from a river, irrigation channel, well, delivery truck, etc.<br /><br />[There is a drawing representing a well.]<br /><br /><span class="em">B.- Where does the water received come from?</span><br /><br />Mark only one box according to the response given by the informant.<br /><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">From a public network.-</span> When there is a system for collecting, treating, and conducting the water toward the dwelling.<br /><br /><span class="em">From a well.-</span> When underground water is extracted by means of a pump or with a bucket, etc.<br /><br /><span class="em">From a river, spring, irrigation ditch, or canal.- </span>When the water comes from a natural or artificial source and is supplied manually or directly from a river, spring, irrigation channel, canal, or stream (<span class="lang">manantial</span> is also included in this list, but also means "spring").<br /><br /><span class="em">From a delivery truck.- </span>When the supply of water is by means of a (public or private) delivery truck.<br /><br /><span class="em">Other (specify).-</span> When the water that the dwelling uses is stored or collected in tanks or buckets directly from the rain through gutters, or is obtained in a way other than those described in the previous categories.</div><br /><br />[There is a drawing representing a well and showing an x in box 2.]<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type and availability of piped water for the use of the household.
Universe
Ecuador 2001: Occupied private dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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