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The amount of time it takes to obtain water is presentedin Table WS.3 and the person who usually collectedthe water in Table WS.4. Note that these results referto one roundtrip from home to drinking water source.Information on the number of trips made in one day wasnot collected.Table WS.3 shows that for 97 percent of households,the drinking water source is on the premises. For onepercent of all households, it takes less than 30 minutesto get to the water source and bring water, and also onepercent of households spend 30 minutes or more for thispurpose. There is almost no difference between time spentcollecting water for households in urban and rural areas.Table WS.3: Time to source of drinking water, Serbia, 2010Percent distribution of household population according to time to go to source of drinking water,get water and return, for users of improved and unimproved drinking water sourcesUsers of improved drinking water sourcesWater onpremisesLess than30 minutes30 minutesor moreTime to source of drinking waterMissing/DKUsers of unimproved drinking water sourcesWater onpremisesLess than30 minutes30 minutesor moreMissing/DKTotalNumber ofhouseholdmembersRegionBelgrade 97.4 .8 1.2 .0 .0 .3 .1 .2 100.0 4193Vojvodina 97.2 1.7 .6 .0 .1 .2 .2 .0 100.0 5407Sumadija and Western Serbia 97.0 1.3 1.1 .1 .5 .0 .0 .0 100.0 5969Southern and Eastern Serbia 98.1 1.0 .5 .0 .1 .1 .1 .0 100.0 5305AreaUrban 98.0 .9 .9 .0 .0 .0 .1 .1 100.0 11501Rural 96.7 1.6 .8 .1 .4 .3 .1 .0 100.0 9373Education of household headNone 98.9 1.1 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 100.0 408Primary 96.5 1.9 .8 .1 .3 .3 .1 .0 100.0 6669Secondary 97.8 .9 .8 .0 .2 .1 .0 .1 100.0 9870Higher 97.8 1.0 1.1 .0 .0 .0 .1 .0 100.0 3913Wealth index quintilePoorest 94.5 3.3 .4 .1 .9 .6 .2 .0 100.0 4175Second 97.4 .9 1.4 .0 .0 .2 .0 .0 100.0 4178Middle 97.0 1.1 1.6 .0 .0 .0 .2 .0 100.0 4173Fourth 98.9 .5 .6 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 100.0 4173Richest 99.2 .4 .2 .0 .0 .0 .0 .2 100.0 4175Total 97.4 1.2 .8 .0 .2 .2 .1 .0 100.0 2087494MULTIPLE INDICATOR CLUSTER SURVEY 2010