India - Common Property Resources, Sanitation Hygiene Services: NSS 54th Round, Schedule 31, January 1998 - June 1998

This item refers to the bathroom used by household members. In case more than household members use one bathroom, the one most commonly used will be considered for making the entry. Note that an open area without a roof used for bathing purposes is only a bathing place and not a bathroom for this survey. The codes are :

no bathroom ..................1 detached ...............2 attached ..............3


Households whose members do not use a bathroom to take a bath will get code 1 (no bathroom). Other households will get code 3 or code 2 depending on whether the bathroom used by them is the structure in which their living rooms are “attached” or “detached”. Attached here means: in the same structure as the dwelling unit. If the dwelling unit is housed in a single structure, there is no problem. A dwelling unit may, however, be spread over more than one structure. In such cases, if the structure containing the bathroom has rooms for living purposes, then the bathroom will be considered as “attached” to the dwelling unit. “Rooms for living purposes” includes bedroom, sitting room, reading room, dining room and prayer room. A bathroom, which is not attached, is detached.