Literal question
Form B Household Questionnaire Part 4: Housing Conditions and Facilities** (Enter Code in the box below)
**Part 4 need not be filled-in for Institutional and Homeless Households and for Boat and Transient Population.
5 Main source of drinking water supply
1 Piped water
2 Tube / pipe well
3 Dug well
4 Spring, river, stream, lake / pond, rain
5 Bought
6 ___ Other (specify)
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Interviewer instructions
Column 5: Main Source of Drinking Water Supply
123. 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. Dug well
4. Spring, river, stream, lake/pond, rain
5. Bought
6. ___ Other, (specify)
Please note that Bought (Code 5) refers to buying water from shops or from street vendors. In that case, give Code 5. If a household gets drinking water through pipe for which payment is made, the Code to be given is 1 and not 5.