Table 13. House tenure, Water source, Drinking water, Lighting, Cooking fuel, Waste disposal, and Toilet Facilities by District, Samoa: 2001
Usual		Tua-		Aiga I		Vaa O	Gagaem-	Faasa-	Gagae-	Gagai-	Vaisi-	Satu-
Residence	Total	masga	A'ana	Le Tai	Atua	Fonoti	auga No I	leleaga	mauga	fomauga	gauo	paitea	Palauli
House tenure
Total	23,064	11,144	2,642	548	2,636	200	392	1,668	506	597	902	682	1,147
Owned	21,380	9,902	2,554	528	2,520	195	387	1,581	489	582	874	659	1,109
Rented	529	509	2	2	5	0	0	5	1	3	1	0	1
Provided w/job	853	478	62	17	103	4	4	76	15	11	26	21	36
House Sitting	302	255	24	1	8	1	1	6	1	1	1	2	1
Water source
Total	23,064	11,144	2,642	548	2,636	200	392	1,668	506	597	902	682	1,147
Tap	19,130	9,872	2,088	327	2,129	162	256	1,490	440	471	313	598	984
Tap shared	1,844	796	262	24	196	12	107	137	41	53	41	61	114
Well/Spring	416	129	11	42	174	21	5	10	0	13	8	0	3
River/Lake	185	76	10	3	76	5	1	1	2	1	4	1	5
Rainwater	1,489	271	271	152	61	0	23	30	23	59	536	22	41
Drinking water
Total	23,064	11,144	2,642	548	2,636	200	392	1,668	506	597	902	682	1,147
Tap	19,800	9,877	2,316	339	2,289	185	344	1,595	478	480	209	594	1,094
Well/Spring	640	315	15	32	206	1	12	20	4	25	4	4	2
River/Lake	203	100	5	9	56	14	2	3	1	4	0	0	9
Rainwater	1,849	372	278	160	73	0	31	46	20	84	663	83	39
Paid Bottled	572	480	28	8	12	0	3	4	3	4	26	1	3
Lighting
Total	23,064	11,144	2,642	548	2,636	200	392	1,668	506	597	902	682	1,147
Electricity	21,438	10,473	2,396	479	2,405	195	369	1,577	467	565	816	629	1,067
Benzine/Kerosene	1,500	596	230	69	220	5	21	89	37	28	79	50	76
Others	126	75	16	0	11	0	2	2	2	4	7	3	4
Cooking fuel
Total	23,064	11,144	2,642	548	2,636	200	392	1,668	506	597	902	682	1,147
Electricity	2,604	1,841	148	19	211	12	25	153	47	26	37	28	57
Gas	2,666	2,038	210	30	153	20	21	74	15	20	22	28	35
Kerosene	3,284	2,532	205	21	240	20	31	84	13	20	29	45	44
Firewood	14,318	4,640	2,058	474	1,984	147	314	1,345	427	529	812	578	1,010
Charcoal	192	93	21	4	48	1	1	12	4	2	2	3	1
Waste disposal
Total	23,064	11,144	2,642	548	2,636	200	392	1,668	506	597	902	682	1,147
Public Rubbish	10,972	6,153	653	118	1,415	31	66	772	213	222	352	387	590
Burned/buried	10,204	4,335	1,615	332	1,068	142	267	686	269	342	466	262	420
Dumped at sea	164	65	30	9	14	4	5	10	1	1	3	11	11
Dumped at bush	1,724	591	344	89	139	23	54	200	23	32	81	22	126
Toilet facilities
Total	23,064	11,144	2,642	548	2,636	200	392	1,668	506	597	902	682	1,147
Flush	13,478	7,710	1,262	225	1,306	123	170	950	255	254	345	343	535
Flush-shared	850	445	112	11	112	4	8	37	9	21	17	24	50
Fale Pisikoa	5,433	1,805	761	196	845	53	116	496	197	201	206	215	342
F/Pisikoa Shared	664	266	85	24	87	7	22	67	12	18	19	18	39
Pit	2,472	858	404	85	267	13	66	112	33	88	301	80	165
Pit shared	162	59	18	7	19	0	10	5	0	15	14	2	13
Others	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
Source: 2001 Samoa Census
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