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1.6 Toilet or sanitary service
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Section I: Characteristics of the dwelling

If the class of private dwelling is an independent house, apartment in a building or tenement house and dwelling or room on a roof, ask questions of section 1.

If it is a premises not built for inhabitation, mobile dwelling or shelter, do not ask the questions of section I: Characteristics of the dwelling.


1.6 Lavatory or sanitary services

The objective of the first question is to know if in a dwelling an instillation exists for the eviction of human wastes.

This installation is known by different names (lavatory, sanitary system, toilet, WC, etc) mention it according to how it is known in the region or locality where you carry out the interview.

It is considered that a dwelling does not have a lavatory when it does not have any instillation for the eviction of human wastes, so its inhabitants do their duties outside (yard, patio, field, garden, etc) or use the lavatory of another dwelling.

[To the right of the text is a form for 1.6 Lavatory or sanitary service.]

In the second question, read each one of the options until getting an affirmative answer and mark it.

[Below the text are forms and drawings of two of the five options.]

The option It does not have water? should be marked when an instillation does not need water to function. For example, dry latrines, black holes and blind wells.