India - Village Facilities Survey , July 2002-December 2002, NSS 58th Round

Reference ID

IND-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch3.1-VF-2002

Year

2002

Country

India

Producer(s)

NSSO - Ministry of Statistics and PI, Government of India

Sponsor(s)

Ministry of Statiistics and PI - MOSPI, Government of India -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Major source of drinking water (Bl3_q5)
File: Village_facility

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 4645
Invalid: 0

Definition

Villages were categorised according to the major source of drinking water used: tap, tube-well/hand pump, well, tank/pond (reserved for drinking), other tank/pond, river/canal/lake, spring and others. The source used by a majority of households for the major part of the last 365 days was considered

Questions and instructions

Pre question

major source of drinking water

Literal question

What is the source of drinking water <

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	1	0.0%
1	tap	1455	31.3%
2	tube well / hand pump	2182	47.0%
3	well	752	16.2%
4	tank / pond (reserved for drinking)	60	1.3%
5	other tank / pond	21	0.5%
6	river / canal / lake	61	1.3%
7	spring	99	2.1%
9	others	14	0.3%

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

major source of drinking water
(tap – 1, tube well / hand pump – 2, well – 3, tank / pond (reserved for drinking) – 4, other tank / pond – 5, river / canal / lake – 6, spring – 7, others – 9)