2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Sixth Edition
Zambia
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Reference ID
ZMB-ZSA-ZDHS-2018-V1.0
Producer(s)
Zambia Statistics Agency
Metadata
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Aug 18, 2025
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source of drinking water (v113)
Data file: ZMBR71FL
Overview
Valid:
38446
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
8
Range:
10 - 97
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | piped water | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | piped into dwelling | 1609 |
4.2%
|
| 12 | piped to yard/plot | 2911 |
7.6%
|
| 13 | piped to neighbor | 1820 |
4.7%
|
| 14 | public tap/standpipe | 2314 |
6%
|
| 20 | tube well water | 0 |
0%
|
| 21 | tube well or borehole | 9882 |
25.7%
|
| 30 | dug well (open/protected) | 0 |
0%
|
| 31 | protected well | 5482 |
14.3%
|
| 32 | unprotected well | 8046 |
20.9%
|
| 40 | surface from spring | 0 |
0%
|
| 41 | protected spring | 208 |
0.5%
|
| 42 | unprotected spring | 1374 |
3.6%
|
| 43 | river/dam/lake/ponds/stream/canal/irrigation channel | 3911 |
10.2%
|
| 51 | rainwater | 75 |
0.2%
|
| 61 | tanker truck | 13 |
0%
|
| 62 | cart with small tank | 0 |
0%
|
| 71 | bottled water | 54 |
0.1%
|
| 96 | other | 29 |
0.1%
|
| 97 | not a dejure resident | 718 |
1.9%
|
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.