Survey on Morbidity and Health Care January - June 2004
NSS 60th Round

India, 2004

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IND-NSSO-SMHC-2004-v1.0

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State of economic independence (B6_q5)

Data file: Block-6-aged-persons-records

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 65

End: 65

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

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Categories

Value	Category
1	not dependent on others
2	partially dependent on others
3	fully dependent on others

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

An aged person is to be considered economically dependent on others if he/she is required to take financial help from others in order to lead his/her day-to-day normal life. The information on economic independence of the aged persons will be collected and relevant codes entered against this item
If the aged person is to depend partly or fully for his/her day-to-day normal life, then code 2 or 3 is to be recorded depending upon the situation.

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Survey on Morbidity and Health Care January - June 2004 NSS 60th Round