India - Drinking Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Housing Condition : NSS 69th Round, Schedule 1.2, July 2012- December 2012

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-69Rnd-Sch1dot2-2012

Year

2014

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Aug 05, 2016

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Quality of drinking water (b4_q9)
File: Block - 4 Particulars of living facilities - drinking water, bathroom, sanitation etc - level 4

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 95510
Invalid: 0

Definition

Quality of drinking water as reported by the informant will be recorded in terms of the following codes:
bad in taste...............................1
bad in smell..............................2
bad in taste and smell...............3
bad due to other reasons...........4
no defect...................................5

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Quality of drinking water from the principal source

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	bad in taste	2637	2.8%
2	bad in smell	1082	1.1%
3	bad in taste and smell	2341	2.5%
4	bad due to other reasons	5538	5.8%
5	no defect	83912	87.9%

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.