IND-NSSO-SAS-2013-v1.0
Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households, January - December 2013
NSS 70th Round
SAS 2013: NSS 70th Round
| Name | Country code |
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| India | IND |
Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) during NSS 59th Round (January - December 2003). Situation Assessment Survey of Farmers was the first of its kind conducted by NSSO. Though information on a majority of items collected through SAS had been collected in some round or other of NSS, an integrated schedule, viz., Schedule 33, covering some basic characteristics of farmer households and their access to basic and modern farming resources was canvassed for the first time in NSS 59th Round.The areas of interest for conducting SAS included the educational level of farmer households, economic well-being of farmer households as measured by consumer expenditure, income and productive assets, and indebtedness; their farming practices and preferences, resource availability, and their awareness of technological developments and access to modern technology in the field of agriculture. In this survey, detailed information was collected on receipts and expenses of households' farm and non-farm businesses, to arrive at their income from these sources. Income from other sources was also ascertained, and so was the consumption expenditure of the households. Keeping in view the same objectives of NSS 59th Round survey, in NSS 70th Round survey, it was decided to repeat the Situation Assessment Survey during January to December 2013. The major changes made with respect to concepts in the schedule are given below: a) In contrast to the definition of farmer used in 59th Round, the necessary condition of 'land possession' has been dispensed with in this round. b) The nomenclature Farmer household' has been changed toAgricultural Household'. Accordingly the name of the schedule has been changed to `Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households' c) References to 'kharif' and 'rabi' seasons have been removed. Instead it was decided to collect data for two halves of the agriculture year 2012-13 as July to December 2012 and January to June 2013. d) It was decided to collect actual expenditure (out of pocket expenditure) incurred by the household for running farm and non-farm business. Schedule 33 is designed for collection of information on aspects relating to farming and other socio-economic characteristics of agricultural households. The information will be collected in two visits to the same set of sample households. The first visit will be made during January to July 2013 and the second, during August to December 2013. The survey will be conducted in rural areas only. Unlike 59th round, it has been decided that schedule 33 will be canvassed in both Central and State samples.
In order to have a comprehensive picture of the farming community and to analyze the impact of the transformation induced by public policy, investments and technological change on the farmers' access to resources and income as well as well-being of the farmer households it was decided to collect information on Indian farmers through “Situation Assessment Survey” (SAS). The areas of interest for conducting SAS would include economic well-being of farmer households as measured by consumer expenditure, income and productive assets, and indebtedness; their farming practices and preferences, resource availability, and their awareness of technological developments and access to modern technology in the field of agriculture. In this survey, detailed information would be collected on receipts and expenses of households' farm and non-farm businesses, to arrive at their income from these sources. Income from other sources would also be ascertained, and so would be the consumption expenditure of the households.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Houdeholds
V1.0: Re-organised anonymised dataset for public distribution.
2015-05-23
Descriptions of blocks appearing in Sch. 33 Visit 1 Block 0 : Descriptive identification of sample household Block 1 : Identification of sample household Block 2 : Particulars of field operations Block 3 : Househlold characteristics Block 4 : Demographic and other particulars of household members Block 5a : Value of output for the crops produced during July to December 2012 Block 5b : Disposition of crops produced during July to December 2012 Block 6 : Particulars of inputs and their expenses for crop production during July to December 2012 Block 7 : Disposition of produce and value of outputs on farming of animals during last 30 days Block 8 : Expenses and other particulars of input on farming of animals during last 30 days Block 9 : Expenses and value of outputs for non-farm business during last 30 days Block 10 : Purchase and sale of productive assets during July to December 2012 Block 11 : Loans (cash and kind) payable as on the date of survey Block 12 : Household consumer expenditure during last 30 days out of Block 13 : Awareness about Minimum Support Price (MSP) Block 14 : Access to technical advice for any of the crops listed in Block [5a] Block 15 : Particulars of other aspects of farming during July to December 2012 Block 16 : Remarks by investigators (FI/ASO) Block 17 : Comments by supervisory officer(s)
National, State, Rural, Urban
All Households of the type :
1-self-employed in agriculture
2-self-employed in non-agriculture
3-regular wage/salary earning
4-casual labour in agriculture
5-casual labour in non-agriculture
6-others
| Name | Affiliation |
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| National Sample Survey Organization | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI), Government of India |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Survey Design Reearch Division | National Sample Survey Office | Questionnaire Desgn, Sampling methodology,Survey Reports Questionnaire Desgn, Sampling methodology,Survey Reports Questionnaire Design, Sampling methodology, Survey Reports |
| Field Operations Division | National Sample Survey Office | Field Work |
| Data Processing Division | National Sample Survey Office | Data Processing |
| Computer Centre | M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) | Tabulation and Dissemination |
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI | MOSPI |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Governing council and Working Group | GOI | Finalisation of survey study |
Total sample size (FSUs): 8042 FSUs have been allocated for the central sample at all-India level. For the state sample, there are 8998 FSUs allocated for all-India.
sample design: A stratified multi-stage design has been adopted for the 70th round survey. The first stage units (FSU) are the census villages (Panchayat wards in case of Kerala) in the rural sector and Urban Frame Survey (UFS) blocks in the urban sector. The ultimate stage units (USU) are households in both the sectors. In case of large FSUs, one intermediate stage of sampling is the selection of two hamlet-groups (hgs)/ sub-blocks (sbs) from each rural/ urban FSU.
Sampling Frame for First Stage Units: For the rural sector, the list of 2001 census villages updated by excluding the villages urbanised and including the towns de-urbanised after 2001 census (henceforth the term 'village' would mean Panchayat wards for Kerala) constitutes the sampling frame. For the urban sector, the latest updated list of UFS blocks (2007-12) is considered as the sampling frame.
Stratification:
(a) Stratum has been formed at district level. Within each district of a State/ UT, generally speaking, two basic strata have been formed: i) rural stratum comprising of all rural areas of the district and (ii) urban stratum comprising all the urban areas of the district. However, within the urban areas of a district, if there were one or more towns with population 10 lakhs or more as per population census 2011 in a district, each of them formed a separate basic stratum and the remaining urban areas of the district was considered as another basic stratum.
(b) However, a special stratum in the rural sector only was formed at State/UT level before district- strata were formed in case of each of the following 20 States/UTs: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. This stratum will comprise all the villages of the State with population less than 50 as per census 2001.
(c) In case of rural sectors of Nagaland one special stratum has been formed within the State consisting of all the interior and inaccessible villages. Similarly, for Andaman & Nicobar Islands, one more special stratum has been formed within the UT consisting of all inaccessible villages. Thus for Andaman & Nicobar Islands, two special strata have been formed at the UT level:
(i) special stratum 1 comprising all the interior and inaccessible villages
(ii) special stratum 2 containing all the villages, other than those in special stratum 1, having population less than 50 as per census 2001.
Sub-stratification:
Rural sector: Different sub-stratifications are done for 'hilly' States and other States. Ten (10) States are considered as hilly States. They are: Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.
(a) sub-stratification for hilly States: If 'r' be the sample size allocated for a rural stratum, the number of sub-strata formed was 'r/2'. The villages within a district as per frame have been first arranged in ascending order of population. Then sub-strata 1 to 'r/2' have been demarcated in such a way that each sub-stratum comprised a group of villages of the arranged frame and have more or less equal population.
(b) sub-stratification for other States (non-hilly States except Kerala): The villages within a district as per frame were first arranged in ascending order of proportion of irrigated area in the cultivated area of the village. Then sub-strata 1 to 'r/2' have been demarcated in such a way that each sub-stratum comprised a group of villages of the arranged frame and have more or less equal cultivated area. The information on irrigated area and cultivated area was obtained from the village directory of census 2001.
(c) sub-stratification for Kerala: Although Kerala is a non-hilly State but because of non-availability of information on irrigation at FSU (Panchayat Ward) level, sub-stratification by proportion of irrigated area was not possible. Hence the procedure for sub-stratification was same as that of hilly States in case of Kerala.
Urban sector: There was no sub-stratification for the strata of million plus cities. For other strata, each district was divided into 2 sub-strata as follows:
sub-stratum 1: all towns of the district with population less than 50000 as per census 2011
sub-stratum 2: remaining non-million plus towns of the districtAllocation of total sample to States and UTs: The total number of sample FSUs have been allocated to the States and UTs in proportion to population as per census 2011 subject to a minimum sample allocation to each State/ UT.
Allocation to strata: Within each sector of a State/ UT, the respective sample size has been allocated to the different strata in proportion to the population as per census 2011. Allocations at stratum level are adjusted to multiples of 2 with a minimum sample size of 2.
Allocation to sub-strata:
1 Rural: Allocation is 2 for each sub-stratum in rural.
2 Urban: Stratum allocations have been distributed among the two sub-strata in proportion to the number of FSUs in the sub-strata. Minimum allocation for each sub-stratum is 2. Selection of FSUs: For the rural sector, from each stratum x sub-stratum, required number of sample villages has been selected by Simple Random Sampling Without Replacement (SRSWOR). For the urban sector, FSUs have been selected by using Simple Random Sampling Without Replacement (SRSWOR) from each stratum x sub-stratum. Both rural and urban samples were drawn in the form of two independent sub-samples and equal number of samples has been allocated among the two sub rounds.
For details reexternal refer to external resouce "Note on Sample Design and Estimation Procedure of NSS 70th Round" Page no.2
There was no deviation from the original sampling design.
There are 17 blocks in visit 1. In Visits 1 & 2, Each sample FSU will be visited twice during this round. Since the workload of the first visit (i.e. visit 1) will be more, the first visit will continue till the end of July 2013. Thus, period of the first visit will be January - July 2013 and that of the second visit (i.e. visit 2) will be August - December 2013.
| Start | End | Cycle |
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| 2013-01-01 | 2013-07-31 | Visit 1 |
| 2013-08-01 | 2013-12-31 | Visit 2 |
| Start date | End date | Cycle |
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| 2013-01-01 | 2013-07-31 | Visit1 |
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
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| National Sample Survey Organization of India | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation | http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx | nssdata.cc-mospi@gov.in |
Validated unit level data relating to various survey rounds are available on CD-ROMS which can be obtained from the Deputy Director General, Computer Centre, M/O Statistics and PI, East Block No. 10 R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066 by remitting the price along with packaging and postal charges as well as giving an undertaking duly signed in a specified format.The amount is to be remitted by way of demand draft drawn in favour of Pay & Accounts Officer, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, payable at New Delhi.
National Sample Survey Organization, Situation Assessment survey of Agricultural households 2013, Version 1.0 NSS 70th Round, provided by CSO(IS Wing) Kolkota.
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
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| Name | Affiliation | URL |
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| ADG, SDRD , NSSO | M/O Statistics & PI, G/O India | http://mospi.gov.in/ |
| DDG, Computer Centre | M/O Statistics & PI, G/O India | http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx |
DDI-IND-NSSO-SAS-2013-v1.0
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
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| Computer Centre | MOSPI, CC | M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation | Documentation of the study |
2015-05-23
Version 1.0 (May 2015)