India - Drinking Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Housing Condition NSS 76th Round : July 2018- December 2018

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has been collecting data on ‘Housing Conditions and other Amenities’ almost since its inception. Data on the structural aspects of dwelling units and basic housing amenities such as drinking water, bathrooms, sewerage, latrine, lighting, etc., available to the households.

Drinking Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Housing Condition), data were collected on important items like (i) principal and supplementary source of drinking water of the household, (ii) availability of sufficient drinking water from principal source, (iii) access of the household to the principal source of drinking water, (iv) distance to the principal source of drinking water, (v) quality of drinking water, (vi) access and facility of bathroom of the household, (vii) access of the household to latrine, (viii) type of latrine used by the household, (ix) reason for not using latrine by the household despite having access, (x) drainage arrangement of the household, (xi) system of disposal of household waste water, (xii) method of disposal of household garbage, (xiii) problem of flies/mosquitoes faced by the household, (xiv) type of the dwelling unit, (xv) tenurial status of dwelling unit, (xvi) type of floor/wall/roof of the dwelling unit, (xvii) condition of the structure of dwelling unit, (xviii) floor area of the dwelling unit, (xix) age of the house owned by the household, (xx) sources of finance for construction/first-hand purchase of houses or flats for residential purpose etc.

Objective of the Survey on Drinking Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Housing

Condition: Facilities of drinking water, sanitation along with housing facilities available to

the households and the micro environment surrounding the houses are important

determinants of overall quality of living condition of the people of the country. The survey on ‘Drinking Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Housing Condition’ aims to collect information on all these aspects. Some of the important items on which information will be collected through this survey are: ‘type of the dwelling unit’ (viz. independent house, flat etc.), ‘tenurial status of the dwelling unit’ (viz. owned, hired, no dwelling etc.), ‘structure of the dwelling unit’(viz. pucca, semi-pucca, katcha), ‘condition of the structure’ (viz. good, satisfactory, bad), ‘floor area of the dwelling unit’, ‘age of the house owned by the household’, facilities available to the households in respect of drinking water, bathroom, latrine etc. and micro environment surrounding the house like ‘drainage system of the house’, ‘system of disposal of household waste water’, ‘system of disposal of household garbage’, ‘problems of flies and mosquitoes’ etc. The main users of the data of NSS 76th round survey on ‘Drinking water, Sanitation,Hygiene and Housing condition’ will be the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation . Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Office of the Registrar General of India. The results of the survey on ‘Drinking water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Housing condition’ of NSS 76th round will also meet the data requirement of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, Housing and Urban Development Corporation, Water Aid India, UNICEF, WHO etc. Apart from these users, the results of the survey will be useful for other planners/policy makers and researchers.

Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household.