PATTERNS IN POTABLE WATER PROJECTS; AN ANALYSIS OF AID"S AUTOMATED DATA

Basic project design data for 91 projects (Africa, Asia, Latin America, Near East Bureaus and Centrally Funded) are presented: (1) percent of planned obligations, (2) project status (planned, active, completed or terminated), (3) proportion of projects with start dates 1977 or 1978, (4) size of project in terms of dollar amount of planned obligations, (5) start date, (6) project purpose, and (7) project goal. Summaries of the project patterns for each region also appear. Included also are recommendations for further analysis of this subsector and of other sectors, and a critique of the ability of existing data bases to provide all desired information. Clusters of independent and dependent variables (technical, health, administrative, economic, financial, social, etc.), data sources, and probabilities that data are found in listed source(s) are exhibited. Appendices provide tables of supplementary analysis, a description of the raw data, enumeration of missing data, and raw data tables.