Impact of improvement of water supply on household economy in a squatter area of Manila

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 627-641

  Aiga, Hirotsugu ^a,b   Umenai, Takusei ^b  

^a Kasumigaseki Bldg   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Access to water supply; Expenditure on water; Household income; The Philippines; Urban squatters

Indexed keywords

HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; TIME ALLOCATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHILIPPINES; POVERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; WATER SUPPLY;

FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERVIEWS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHILIPPINES; POVERTY; POVERTY AREAS; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME; URBAN POPULATION; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

PHILIPPINES;

EID: 0036298233     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00192-7     Document Type: Article

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