Housing Condition and Migration Survey, January - June 1993
NSS 49th Round

India, 1993

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-49Rnd-Sch1dot2-1993

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Latrine type (B7_q7)

Data file: Block-7-Particulars of living facilities-Records

Overview

Valid: 119397

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 52

End: 52

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	251	0.2%
1	No latrine	70662	59.2%
2	service latrine	6286	5.3%
3	Septic tank	18602	15.6%
4	Flush system	12084	10.1%
8	Invalid	5	0%
9	Other	11507	9.6%

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 information about the types of latrine used by the household will be collected and recorded in codes.
If the household does not have any latrine facility, i.e. its members use open area as latrine, code 1 will be recorded. Mostly, in small towns and in some areas of big towns and cities one comes across latrines which are serviced by scavengers of the municipality, municipal corporation etc. for households having latrine facility of this type, code 2 chambers will be considered as a septic tank latrine and code 3 will be recorded if the household has a lateine of that type. If the household has flush system lateine i. e. latrine connedted to undeerground sewerage system, code 4 will be recorded. If the household has a latrine of any other type, code 9 will be recorded.

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Housing Condition and Migration Survey, January - June 1993 NSS 49th Round