ABSTRACT
In July 1995, a survey begun for obtaining information regarding the willingness of households to pay for improved water supply and sanitation for rural communities in the State of Monagas, Venezuela. The questionnaire for the survey was divided into seven sections, the first section requested information about the characteristics of the respondent’s household. The second asked about respondent’s priorities for solving six different social problems. The third requested information about the respondent’s current water supply situation, and the fourth was about sanitation practices. The fifth asked for the respondent’s opinion about self-sufficiency of the community to operate its own water/sanitation system. The sixth asked about willingness to pay for two different types of improvements: one that would make water supply more abundant and reliable and the other that would improve water quality in addition to reliability. The last section elicited socio-economic information about the respondent’s household such as occupation, education, income, assets, and expenditures.
