Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994
NSS 50th Round

India, 1993 - 1994

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch1.0-1993-94

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National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Primary Source of Water (B12_q8)

Data file: Blocks 1,2,3,10,11,12,13_Household characteristics

Overview

Valid: 115354

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 261

End: 261

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the primary source of water for the household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not reported	369	0.3%
1	Tap	48134	41.7%
2	Tubewell, handpump	38113	33%
3	Well	21885	19%
4	Tank, pond reserved for drinking	1628	1.4%
5	Other tank	464	0.4%
6	River, canal, lake	1417	1.2%
7	Spring	2261	2%
9	Others	1083	0.9%

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 in respect of the households primary source of drinking water will be collected and recorded in codes against this item. The codes are :
tap .................................. 1
tube well, hand pump ...... 2
well ...................................3
tank, pond reserved
for drinking ...................... 4
other tank .........................5
river, canel, lake .............. 6
spring ............................... 7
others ............................... 9
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 and if the sample household is availing itself of such facility, then the appropriate code will be 1. drinking water carried through pipe from sources like well, tank river etc. for the convenience of only one or a group of households, however, will not be treated as tap water. Instead, such a source will get the code appropriate to the actual source from which water is carried through pipe. The other codes are self-explanatory. If a household gets drinking water from more than one source, the source which is in major use will be considered. If the sources of drinking water of a household is different in different seasons, the major source of drinking water is to be ascertained and the corresponding code has to be noted against this item.

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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994 NSS 50th Round