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Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan 2003 - Dec 2003
NSS 59th Round

India
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003
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National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Sub - sample (SubSample)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 212864
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 51
End: 51
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Sub - sample
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Central sample 107195
50.4%
2 State sample 105669
49.6%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
Record 1 or 2 depending on whether the selected sample village/block is central sample or state sample.

Description

Definition
An important feature of the NSS sampling design is that the total sample of first stage units is drawn in the form of two or more independent and parallel samples, termed as interpenetrating sub-samples. Each sub- sample is drawn by the same
sampling scheme and is capable of providing valid estimates of the population parameters. The comparison of sub-sample wise estimates shows the margin of uncertainty associated with the combined sample estimate.

Interpenetrating sub-samples have been used in NSS (i) to obtain valid estimates from each sub-round (season) of the survey round, and (ii) to ensure that Central and State samples for any State/ UT cover independent and equally valid samples of units.

The samples surveyed by the NSSO staff are termed as Central sample and the matched samples surveyed by State Government staff are termed as State sample.
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