Use water filter
(WS6D)
File: Household Roster
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
| Valid cases: 626 (631.6)
Invalid: 0 (0)
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Definition
- Boil refers to boiling or heating water with fuel.
- Add bleach/chlorine refers to using liquid chlorine bleach or bleaching powder to treat drinking water.
- Strain it through a cloth refers to pouring water through a cloth which acts a filter for collecting particles from the water.
- Use water filter involves water flowing through a filter made of ceramic, sand or a combination of materials to remove particles and at least some microbes from water.
Universe
Households which treat water to make it safer to drink
Source of information
Head of household or other responsible household member
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | Weighted | |
|---|
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D
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Use water filter (ceramic, sand, composite, etc.)
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626
| 632 | ![]() 100.0%
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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.
Questions and instructions
Literal question
What do you usually do to the water to make it safer to drink?
Anything else?
Interviewer instructions
The purpose of this question is to determine if the household drinking water is treated within the household, so what type of treatment is used. This question is intended to gather information on water treatment at the household level and not water treatment at the municipal or vendor level.
Circle the code corresponding to the response. The household may be using a method that you know does not make water safer to drink - do not use your judgement, and record the response. Record all items mentioned (for example, the household may be using filtering and adding chlorine at the same time). Circle 'X' for 'Other' and specify on the line provided what the household does to the water to make it safer to drink. Circle 'Z' if the respondent doesn't know.
