Employment and Unemployment Survey, January to December, 1983
38th Round

India

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch10-1983

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National Sample Survey Office

Collections

Employment and Unemployment

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Purpose of Loan/Debt (B10_q5)

Data file: Block-10-Household-Loan-records

Overview

Valid: 15592

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 55

End: 55

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

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Literal question

Purpose of Loan/Debt

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	1	0%
1	Medical expenses.	2124	13.6%
2	Educational expenses	112	0.7%
3	Legal expenses.	60	0.4%
4	Other consumption expenses .	6784	43.5%
5	Marriage and other are ceremonial occassions	2135	13.7%
6	Purchase of land and construction of buildings	844	5.4%
7	Productive purposes	2603	16.7%
8	Repayment of debt	136	0.9%
9	Others.	793	5.1%

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 purpose for which the loan has been contracted by the household will be recorded in this column in terms of codes. If a particular loan is taken to meet more than one purpose, the purpose for which large part of the loan is intended to be utilized will be considered for recording entries against this column

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Employment and Unemployment Survey, January to December, 1983 38th Round