Form B: Household questionnaire Part 4
Part 4: Housing conditions and facilities
[5] Main source of drinking water supply
Enter code.
[] 1 Piped water
[] 2 Tube / pipe well
[] 3 Protected dug well
[] 4 Unprotected dug well
[] 5 Spring, river, stream, lake / pond, rain
[] 6 Bought (tanker truck, vender or otherwise bought, bottle bought)
[] 7 Other (specify) ____
99. Column 5 Main source of drinking water supply
Give appropriate code for the household's main source of drinking water supply. If there are two or more sources of drinking water supply, give the code of the source used most of the times. Following are the codes for different sources of drinking water supply:
1. Piped water
2. Tube / pipe well
3. Protected dug well
4. Unprotected dug well
5. Spring, river, stream, lake/pond, rain
6. Bought (Tanker truck, vendor or otherwise bought, bottle bought)
7. Other (specify)
Please note that Bought (Code 6) refers to buying water from shops or from street vendors. In that case, give Code 6. If a household gets drinking water through pipe for which payment is made, the codes to be given is 1 and not 6.