India - Urban Slums Survey, July - December 2002, NSS 58th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch-0dot21-2002

Year

2002

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 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Major source of drinking water (B3_q17)
File: Block-3-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 692
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Major source of drinking water.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Tap	545	78.8%
2	Tube well / hand pump	112	16.2%
3	Well	16	2.3%
4	Tank / pond (reserved for drinking)	0	0.0%
5	Other tank / pond	0	0.0%
6	River / canal / lake	2	0.3%
7	Spring	1	0.1%
9	Others	16	2.3%

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

Information about the major source of drinking water available for the slum dwellers will be ascertained and recorded in terms of codes. If an arrangement is made by corporation, municipality, panchayat or other local authorities or any private or public housing estate or agency to supply water through pipe then code 1 will be given.