India - Drinking water, sanitation, hygiene and housing condition : NSS 69th Round : July 2012- Dec 2012

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-69Rnd-Sch1dot2-2012

Year

2014

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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Principal source of drinking water (b4_q1)
File: Block - 4 Particulars of living facilities - drinking water, bathroom, sanitation etc - level 4

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 95537
Invalid: 0

Definition

Information in respect of the household’s principal source of drinking water will be collected. Principal source of drinking water will relate to that source of drinking water which is used most commonly (in terms of frequency) by the household during the last 365 days.
The relevant codes for this item are:
bottled water………………………………………….. 01
piped water into dwelling ……………………………. 02
piped water to yard/plot …………………………….... 03
public tap/standpipe…………………………….......... 04
tube well/borehole……………………………............ 05
well:
protected………………………………………. 06
unprotected……………………………………. 07
spring:
protected………………………………………. 08
unprotected……………………………………. 09
rainwater collection …………………………………. 10
surface water:
tank/pond...................................……………………........ 11
other surface water (river, dam, stream, canal, lake, etc.) .. 12
others (tanker-truck, cart with small tank or drum, etc.)... 19

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
01	bottled water	1759	1.8%
02	piped water into dwelling	16825	17.6%
03	piped water to yard/plot	13632	14.3%
04	public tap/standpipe	15183	15.9%
05	tube well/borehole	34796	36.4%
06	well : protected	2444	2.6%
07	well : unprotected	6411	6.7%
08	spring : protected	968	1.0%
09	spring : unprotected	660	0.7%
10	rainwater collection	116	0.1%
11	surface water : tank/pond	671	0.7%
12	other surface water (river, dam, stream, canal, lake etc.)	598	0.6%
19	others(tanker-truck,cart with small tank or drum, etc	1474	1.5%

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.