Debt & Investment, NSS 70th Round Visit-1: Jan - Dec 2013

Identification particulars of the sample household and names of the Field Investigator/ ASO, FO/SO, their signatures, dates of survey/ inspection/scrutiny, despatch, etc. are recorded in block 1 and block 2.

Household characteristics like household size, household type, religion, social group are recorded in this block. It also records whether member is having bank account, credit card etc.

All sample household members are listed in this block. Demographic particulars, viz., relation to head, age, sex and general education, etc. are recorded for each member.

This block is used to keep information about various locations in which land owned by the household is situated (rural or urban, in the same village or town, in a different village or town, etc.).

The actual details of land owned like area and value of each type of land, including the housesite and other residential areas, owned by the sample household on the reference date are recorded in Block 5.1.

The actual details of land owned like area and value of each type of land, including the housesite and other residential areas, owned by the sample household on the reference date are recorded in Block 5.2.

This block is present in the Visit 1 schedule only. It is meant for recording value of all owned buildings and constructions - whether complete or incomplete - on the reference date, as well as the approximate floor area.

This block belongs to the Visit 1 schedule only. The main purpose being obtaining the value of livestock and poultry owned by the household as on 30.06.2012. Animals reared for breeding etc. are to be included but those transacted for trading purpose will be outside the coverage of this schedule. For cattle, and also for buffaloes, the number and value are to be broken up by age, sex and use into 8 categories each, making a total of 16 categories of cattle and buffaloes. Only 4 other categories are used for the remaining livestock and poultry: (a) other large heads, (b) ovine and other mammals, (c) poultry birds, and (d) others.

This block appears in the Visit 1 schedule only. Any transport equipment owned by the household will be listed in this block, irrespective of the purpose for which it is used: farm, non-farm or household purpose.

This block appears in the Visit 1 schedule only. All agricultural machinery and implements, owned by the household, for own use or hired out, will be listed in this block.

Block 10 lists thirteen categories of non-farm business equipment.However, only equipment wholly owned by the household and not shared by other household(s) are considered for this block. Equipment partly owned by the household and, in particular, equipment owned by a partnership involving members of more than one household will be excluded.

This block records stock of financial assets held on a reference date in the form of ownership of shares and debentures. The shares and debentures may be held in credit or non-credit cooperative societies, commercial banks, financial and non-financial companies, mutual funds including the Unit Trust of India, and similar institutions.

This block is provided in the Visit 1 schedule for collecting information on financial assets. The financial assets to be considered here are the different types of certificates/securities issued by the government or banks, viz. National Savings Certificate (NSC), Indira Vikas Patra, Kisan Vikas Patra, RBI Bonds, and deposits in post office, cooperative banks, commercial banks, companies, insurance companies etc. Value of the assets as on the reference date is to be recorded in this block.

This block is provided in the Visit 1 schedule to collect information on amounts receivable by the household on the reference date on account of loans advanced by them in cash or in kind, and other amounts due to the household but remaining unpaid as on the reference date.

The details of cash loans payable by the household as on the date of survey and transactions of all loans will be recorded in this block both in the visit 1 & visit 2. The reference period for recording items of loan is of 01.07.2012 to the date of survey for visit 1 and 01.07.2013 to the date of survey for visit 2.

In this block, information in respect of all kind loans payable by the household is recorded.

This block has been designed to record
(a) capital expenditure in cash and or in kind that has been incurred for new purchase, constructions, additions, major repairs and alterations, improvement in addition to expenditure incurred on normal repairs and maintenance of physical assets, and
(b) value of physical assets due to sale, discardment and loss during the reference period of July-December 2012 in Visit 1 and January -June 2013 in Visit 2.

The amount financed from borrowings is to be recorded in this block depending on whether the lending agency is an institutional or a non-institutional one.