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III. Housing (3*) • Condition of structure: Good (good - 1, satisfactory - 2, bad - 3).
• Type of the dwelling: Independent (independent house - 1, flat - 2,
others - 9)
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• Pucca dwelling: if having pucca wall and roof [wall type (grass/ straw/
leaves/ reeds/ bamboo, etc. - 1, mud (with / without bamboo) / unburnt
brick - 2, canvas / cloth - 3, other katcha - 4, timber - 5, burnt brick /
stone/ lime stone - 6, iron or other metal sheet - 7, cement / RBC / RCC
- 8, other pucca - 9); roof type (grass/ straw/ leaves/ reeds/ bamboo etc.
- 1, mud / unburnt brick - 2, canvas / cloth - 3, other katcha - 4, tiles /
slate - 5, burnt brick / stone / lime stone - 6, iron / zinc /other metal sheet
/asbestos sheet - 7, cement / RBC / RCC - 8, other pucca - 9)]
IV. Micro-environment • Drainage system of the household: No drainage, open katcha drainage
(4*) (underground -1, covered pucca -2, open pucca -3, open katcha -4, no
drainage -5)
• Whether the household faced problem of flies/mosquitoes during last
365 days? : Severe (yes: severe - 1, moderate - 2; no - 3).
• Whether any effort was made by the Local Bodies/State Government
during last 365 days to tackle problem of flies/mosquitoes? : Yes (yes -
1, no - 2, not known - 3).
V. Other Facilities • Kitchen type: with water tap, no separate kitchen (kitchen type
(8*) (separate kitchen: with water tap - 1, without water tap - 2; no separate
kitchen - 3).
• Ventilation of the dwelling unit: good (good - 1, satisfactory - 2, bad - 3)
• Access of the household to bathroom: No bathroom, (exclusive use of
household - 1, common use of households in the building - 2, public/
community use without payment - 3, public/community use with
payment - 4, others - 9, no bathroom - 5).
• Type of bathroom used by the household: attached to the dwelling unit
(used: attached to the dwelling unit-1, detached to the dwelling unit but
within the household premises-2, other-9, not used-3)

• Whether the household has electricity for domestic use?: Yes (yes - 1,
no - 2).

• Type of electric wiring: temporary (conduit wiring - 1, fixed to the walls
- 2, temporary - 3).

• Type of fuel used by household for cooking: LPG (firewood, chips &
crop residue - 01, LPG - 02, other natural gas - 03, dung cake - 04,
kerosene - 05, coke / coal - 06, gobar gas - 07, other biogas - 08, charcoal
- 09, electricity (incl. generated by solar or wind power generators) - 10,
solar cooker - 11, others - 19, no cooking arrangement - 12).

1 Pucca structure as defined in NSO report is a structure whose walls and roofs were made of pucca materials such as
cement, concrete, oven burnt bricks, hollow cement/ash bricks, stone, stone blocks, jack boards (cement plastered
reeds), iron, zinc or other metal sheets, timber, tiles, slate, corrugated iron, asbestos cement sheet, veneer, plywood,
artificial wood of synthetic material and poly vinyl chloride (PVC) material.