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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Primary source of drinking water (B3_1_q14)

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

Overview

Valid: 117604

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 85

End: 85

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Primary source of drinking water?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Tap Water	36017	30.6%
2	Tube Well	4659	4%
3	Hand Pump	20019	17%
4	Pucca Well	41724	35.5%
5	Pond	4058	3.5%
6	Canal, River, Spring	8194	7%
9	Others	2933	2.5%

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

The source from which the household fetches water for drinking will be noted here in terms of code numbers printed below the block. The household may use more than one source of water for drinking purposes but only the code corresponding to the primary or principal source of drinking water will be recorded here. The codes to be used are:

tap water………………1 pond…………………………..5
tube well………………2 canal, river, spring……………6
hand pump…………….3 others…………………………9
pucca well…………….4

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