Section II. Characteristics and services of the housing unit (continued)

8. Do you pay for water service?

5. Chapter 5: Specific instructions to fill out Section II: Characteristics and services of the housing unit
If there is more than one household in the housing unit, please fill in Section II, "Characteristics and services of the housing unit" for the main household only.

Question 8: Do you pay for water service?

If the respondent answers that they do not pay for water service, fill in the oval in option 2, "no", and proceed to question 10.

If the respondent answers that the payment for the water service is included in the rent or in the maintenance payment when living in a building or housing complex, then consider that they pay for the service.

If the water they use comes from a well (groundwater), spring, river, irrigation canal, lake or pond, is carried by buckets or similar devices to the housing unit and no payment is made, then fill in the oval of option 2, "no".

Payment for water service This is the monetary payment that is made periodically for
water service operative charges; this may include the maintenance of the public network.