2022 ndhs housing

Question 1

(*Sanitation service ladder)
Safely managed

Answer 1

Use of improved facilities that are not shared with other households and where
excreta are safely disposed of in situ or transported and treated off-site.

Question 2

(*Sanitation service ladder)
Basic

Answer 2

Use of improved facilities that are not shared with other households.

Question 3

(*Sanitation service ladder)
Limited

Answer 3

Use of improved facilities shared by two or more households.

Question 4

(*Sanitation service ladder)
Unimproved

Answer 4

Use of pit latrines without a slab or platform, hanging latrines, or bucket
latrines.

Question 5

(*Sanitation service ladder)
open defe ation

Answer 5

Open defecation
Disposal of human feces in fields, forests, bushes, open bodies of water,
beaches, or other open spaces or with solid waste.

Question 6

(*Drinking water service ladder)
Safely managed

Answer 6

Drinking water from an improved water source that is located on the premises,
available when needed, and free from fecal and priority chemical
contamination.

Question 7

(*Drinking water service ladder)
Basic

Answer 7

Drinking water from an improved source, provided either water is on the
premises or round-trip collection time is 30 minutes or less.

Question 8

(*Drinking water service ladder)
Limited

Answer 8

Drinking water from an improved source, and round-trip collection time is more
than 30 minutes.

Question 9

(*Drinking water service ladder)
Unimproved

Answer 9

Drinking water from an unprotected dug well or unprotected spring.

Question 10

Disposal of excreta from on-site facilities
Excreta safely disposed of in situ
Includes septic tanks and latrines in which waste has been buried in a covered
pit, waste has never been emptied, and it is unknown if waste has ever been
emptied.
Excreta disposed of unsafely
Includes septic tanks and latrines in which waste has been emptied to
uncovered pits, open ground, a water body, or other locations.
Excreta removed for treatment
Includes septic tanks and latrines in which waste has been removed by a
service provider to a treatment plant or an unknown location or were removed
by a non-service provider to an unknown location.

Question 10

(*Drinking water service ladder)
Surface water

Answer 10

Drinking water directly from a river, dam, lake, pond, stream, canal, or
irrigation canal.