110 CHAPTER THREE TABLE 3-22. DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONS BY DISTANCE TO NEAREST HOSPITAL (NBS 1981) Percentage of Nepal's Total Sample N Estimated Population Distancea Facility in panchayat One-hour walk Two-hour walk Three-hour walk Four-hour walk Five-hour walk Six-hour walk Seven-hour walk Eight-hour walk Nine-hour walk Ten-hour walk Twelve-hour walk Fifteen-hour walk Twenty-hour walk Thirty-hour walk Subtotal Missing distance 3,009 5,830 6,443 3,374 5,769 1,402 516 703 1,620 265 4,499 550 156 1,450 2,161 37,747 2,140 1,354,982 2,004,806 2,249,576 1,060,562 2,041,993 501,768 178,235 243,494 585,350 92,143 1,620,938 193,733 59,391 490,170 754,343 13,431,484 741,598 10.1% 14.9 16.7 7.9 15.2 3.7 1.3 1.8 4.4 0.7 12.1 1.4 0.4 3.6 5.6 100.0 Total 39,887 14,173,082 100.0 Source: FR9.002 AN.56 aWalking or driving distance in hours to reach hospital facility; one day equals eight hours walking. to reach a drinking water supply; some 6. 7 percent of households report more than a half-hour walk to obtain drinking water. The distribution of households by the source and distance to washing water is quite similar to that for drinking water. Three- quarters (75.9%) obtain washing water from a tap, a tube well, or an open well. Other sources include rivers or streams (15.0%), ponds or lakes (0.9%) and tanks (less than 0.1%). Similarly, half (51.0%) obtain washing water within the household or within a five- minute walk, and two-fifths (42.3%) walk from 5 to 30 minutes to reach their source of washing water. Only 6.8 percent must walk more than a half hour to obtain washing water. In summary, the preceding discussions have described the sur- vey population of sites, households, and persons with respect to a variety of geographic, sociodemographic, and environmental characteristics. The flow of survey cases from enumerations to examinations in the final 105 survey sites was also described. Results were presented as weighted estimates, and the development of weights
