India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 50th Round, Schedule 1, July 1993 - June 1994

The infor­mation in respect of the households primary source of drinking water will be collected and recorded in codes against this item. The codes are :
tap .................................. 1
tube well, hand pump ...... 2
well ...................................3
tank, pond reserved
for drinking ...................... 4
other tank .........................5
river, canel, lake .............. 6
spring ............................... 7
others ............................... 9
If an arrangement is made by corporation, municipality, panchayat or other local authorities or any private or public housing estate or agency to ;supply water through pipe and if the sample household is availing itself of such facility, then the appropriate code will be 1. drinking water carried through pipe from sources like well, tank river etc. for the convenience of only one or a group of households, however, will not be treated as tap water. Instead, such a source will get the code appropriate to the actual source from which water is carried through pipe. The other codes are self-explanatory. If a house­hold gets drinking water from more than one source, the source which is in major use will be considered. If the sources of drinking water of a household is different in different seasons, the major source of drinking water is to be ascertained and the corresponding code has to be noted against this item.