Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1990 - Jun1991
NSS 46th Round

India

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-46Rnd-Sch1.0-1990

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Jan 16, 2018

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Relation to Head Code (B4_q3)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 135449

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 62

End: 62

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the relationship of the members of the household with the head of the household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Head	28619	21.1%
2	Spouse of head	22171	16.4%
3	Married child	5685	4.2%
4	Spouse of married child	5060	3.7%
5	Unmarried child	54284	40.1%
6	Grandchild	8299	6.1%
7	Father/mother/father-in-law/mother-in-law	3946	2.9%
8	Brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law/other relations	6703	4.9%
9	Servant/employee/or non-relatives	682	0.5%

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

description code

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

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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1990 - Jun1991 NSS 46th Round