Household Assets File

The CHNS Household Water, Sanitation, and Asset Master File contains information regarding household facilities and assets. As a longitudinal file, it contains multiple years of data for each household.  A household can have from 1 to 8 years of data as designated by the WAVE variable, which contains the survey year, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, or 2009. 

This file consolidates household asset data from nine survey files:

Variable T6, the Number of Household Members, has been added to the M07ASSET file since this file applies to all households.

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