India - Housing Condition Survey, July 2008- June 2009, NSS 65th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-65Rnd-Sch1dot2-2008-09

Year

2008 - 2009

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Drainage arrangement (B5_q8)
File: Block-5-Housing characteristics-environment-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 153449
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Drainage arrangement:

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Underground	17174	11.2%
2	Covered pucca	9675	6.3%
3	Open pucca	33368	21.7%
4	Open katcha	25787	16.8%
5	No drainage	67445	44.0%

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

A system for carrying off waste water and liquid waste of the house will be considered as drainage system. Information on the drainage system available to the house will be recorded against this item in codes.It may be noted that if no system exists to carry off the waste water of the house, but water flows down by its own gravity, in an unregulated manner, it will be considered as no drainage, and code 5 will be entered. In other cases, depending upon the drainage system available appropriate code will be given.