India - Household Consumer Expenditure, January-December, 1983, NSS 38th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch1.0-1983

Year

Country

India

Producer(s)

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

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

Household Consumer Expenditure

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Jan 15, 2018

Last modified

Mar 26, 2019

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Type of latrine code (B3_1_q12)
File: Blocks 1,3 and 10- Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 117604
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Type of latrine ?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	No Latrine	80829	68.7%
2	Service (Shared)	6465	5.5%
3	Service (Exclusive)	4171	3.5%
4	Septic Tank (Shared)	5298	4.5%
5	Septic Tank (Exclusive)	4653	4.0%
6	Flush System (Shared)	4243	3.6%
7	Flush System (Exclusive)	3671	3.1%
8	Others (Shared)	1552	1.3%
9	Others (Exclusive)	6722	5.7%

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

Usually a household will be using only one type of latrine out of the 9 types described in the code list. The code for the particular type will be recorded in this line. If the household has access to more than one type of latrine, preference will be given to the type having the higher code among codes 1 to 7 only, codes to be used are :

no latrine………………….1 flush system (shared)………….6
service (shared)…………..2 flush system (exclusive)………7
service (exclusive)………..3 others (shared)…………………8
septic tank (shared)……….4 others (exclusive)………………9
septic tank (exclusive)……5