Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2005 - June 2006
NSS 62nd Round

India, 2005 - 2006

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62Rnd-Sch1.0-2005-06

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Collections

Household Consumption Expenditure

Metadata

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Jan 18, 2018

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Relation to Head Code (B4_q3)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 190022

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 60

End: 60

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is your relation to head of the household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Self	39437	20.8%
2	Spouse of head	31395	16.5%
3	Married child	10505	5.5%
4	Spouse of married child	10391	5.5%
5	Unmarried child	66908	35.2%
6	Grandchild	17381	9.1%
7	Father/mother/father-in-law/mother-in-law	5049	2.7%
8	Brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law/other relatives	8342	4.4%
9	Servant/employee/or non-relatives	614	0.3%

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

The relationship of each member of the household to the head of the household (for the head, the relationship is 'self') will be recorded in this column. The codes are:

self ................................ 1 grandchild ...................................................... 6
spouse of head............... 2 father/mother/father-in-law/mother- in-law ... 7
married child ................ 3 brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law
spouse of married child .. 4 /other relatives....... 8
unmarried child .............. 5 servant/employees/other non-relatives ........... 9

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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2005 - June 2006 NSS 62nd Round