Household Consumer Expenditure, January-December, 1983
NSS 38th Round

India

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch1.0-1983

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National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Type of latrine code (B3_1_q12)

Data file: Blocks 1,3 and 10- Household Characteristics

Overview

Valid: 117604

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 82

End: 82

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Type of latrine ?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	No Latrine	80829	68.7%
2	Service (Shared)	6465	5.5%
3	Service (Exclusive)	4171	3.5%
4	Septic Tank (Shared)	5298	4.5%
5	Septic Tank (Exclusive)	4653	4%
6	Flush System (Shared)	4243	3.6%
7	Flush System (Exclusive)	3671	3.1%
8	Others (Shared)	1552	1.3%
9	Others (Exclusive)	6722	5.7%

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

Usually a household will be using only one type of latrine out of the 9 types described in the code list. The code for the particular type will be recorded in this line. If the household has access to more than one type of latrine, preference will be given to the type having the higher code among codes 1 to 7 only, codes to be used are :

no latrine………………….1 flush system (shared)………….6
service (shared)…………..2 flush system (exclusive)………7
service (exclusive)………..3 others (shared)…………………8
septic tank (shared)……….4 others (exclusive)………………9
septic tank (exclusive)……5

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Household Consumer Expenditure, January-December, 1983 NSS 38th Round