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

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Primary source of drinking water (B3_1_q14)
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

Primary source of drinking water?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Tap Water	36017	30.6%
2	Tube Well	4659	4.0%
3	Hand Pump	20019	17.0%
4	Pucca Well	41724	35.5%
5	Pond	4058	3.5%
6	Canal, River, Spring	8194	7.0%
9	Others	2933	2.5%

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.

Interviewer instructions

The source from which the household fetches water for drinking will be noted here in terms of code numbers printed below the block. The household may use more than one source of water for drinking purposes but only the code corresponding to the primary or principal source of drinking water will be recorded here. The codes to be used are:

tap water………………1 pond…………………………..5
tube well………………2 canal, river, spring……………6
hand pump…………….3 others…………………………9
pucca well…………….4