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5th Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008 - IPUMS Subset

South Sudan, 2008
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WBG_SSD_2008_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Southern Sudan Centre for Census, Evaluation and Statistics, Minnesota Population Center
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Source of drinking water (SS2008A_0039)

Data file: SSD2008-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 128
End: 129
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 13
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
36. What is the main source of drinking water for this household?

[] 1 Water filtering stations with common network/stand pipe (koshk)
[] 2 Mechanical boreholes with common network stand pipe (koshk)
[] 3 Deep boreholes (donkey) with network
[] 4 Deep boreholes (donkey) without network
[] 5 Hand pumps
[] 6 Sand filters with common network stand pipe (koshk)
[] 7 Shallow wells (dug wells)
[] 8 Hafeer / dam without filter (still open water)
[] 9 Hafeer /dam with filter (still open water)
[] 10 Turda / fula / river (still open water)
[] 11 Running open water source (river, pond, tura'a)
[] 12 Water vendor (tanker-cart-bearer) from deep boreholes
[] 13 Water vendor - from shallow wells pond/river/spring
Categories
Value Category
1 Water filtering station with common network
2 Mechanical boreholes with common network
3 Deep borehole (donkey) with network
4 Deep borehole (donkey) without network
5 Hand pump
6 Sand filter with common network
7 Shallow well (dug well)
8 Hafeer/Dam without filter (still open water)
9 Hafeer/Dam with filter (still open water)
10 Seasonal river (fula)
11 River, stream (turaa)
12 Water vendor (from deep borehole)
13 Water vendor (from shallow well, pond, river, spring)
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
Q36 "What is the main source of drinking water for this household?"

A household may obtain water from numerous sources. You must ask them which source they get most of their water.
If the respondent is uncertain, read the categories aloud.
Shade the number corresponding to the answer provided by the respondent.
Remember that only one of the sources listed should be shaded.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the main source of drinking water for the household.
Universe
All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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