India - Survey on Morbidity and Health Care: NSS 60th Round, Schedule 25, January 2004 - June 2005

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-60th-Sch25-2004
Year 2004
Country India
Producer(s) National Sample Survey Office
Sponsor(s) M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -
Collection(s)
National Sample Survey
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Type of Latrine (B3_q9)
File: Block-3-socio-economic-characteristics-household-records
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 73840
Invalid: 0
Questions and instructions
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 service 2038 2.8%
2 pit 7616 10.3%
3 septic tank/ flush system 24338 33.0%
4 no latrine 36568 49.5%
9 others 3280 4.4%
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 information about the type of latrine used by the household will be recorded in codes.If the household does not have any latrine facility, i.e., its members use open area as latrine code 4 will be recorded. In a few areas, one may still comes across latrines that are serviced by scavengers. These are called service latrines. A latrine connected to underground sewerage system is called flush system latrine. A latrine connected to underground septic chambers will be considered as a septic tank latrine. A latrine connected to a pit dug in earth is called a pit latrine. If the household uses a latrine of any other type, code 9 will be recorded.

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