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

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-54Rnd-Sch31-Jan1998-June1998

Year

1998

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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Mar 11, 2016

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site where garbage is taken (B5_q27)
File: Block 5_Sanitation and hygiene

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 110112
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Site where garbage is taken

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not reported	1	0.0%
1	To bio-gas plant or manure pit	5319	4.8%
2	To community dumping spot	16375	14.9%
3	To household’s individual dumping spot	61509	55.9%
9	Other	26908	24.4%

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 codes are:

To bio-gas plant or manure pit ....................................1
To community dumping spot ......................................2
To household's individual dumping spot ......................3
Other ........................................................................9

If the household dumps its garbage indiscriminately, the entry will be 3. If a small number of households dump their garbage in a particular spot, the entry will again be 3. If the garbage is first taken to a community dumping spot and from there to a bio-gas plant, the entry will be 1.