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Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 43rd Round : July 1987 - June 1988
Fourth Quinquennial Survey

India, 1987 - 1988
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch10-1987-88
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National Sample Survey Office
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Employment and Unemployment
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Purpose of loan (B9_q5)

Data file: Block-9-Household-Loan-Records

Overview

Valid: 11218
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Purpose of loan
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Medical expenses 1029
9.2%
2 Educational expenses 90
0.8%
3 Legal expanses 48
0.4%
4 Other consumption expenses 4742
42.3%
5 Marriage and other ceremonial expenses 1256
11.2%
6 Purchase of land and construction building 662
5.9%
7 Productive product 2546
22.7%
8 Repayment of debt 136
1.2%
9 Others 709
6.3%
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 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. The purpose for loan taken for legal expenses to be incurred towards enterprises account will get code 7. While code 4 will cover for loans taken for the purpose of food consumption, consumption of clothing, purchase of durable goods, etc.
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