Household Consumer Expenditure, July - Dec 1991
NSS 47th Round

India

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-47Rnd-Sch1.0-1991

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: 67747

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 57

End: 57

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	13666	20.2%
2	Spouse of head	10962	16.2%
3	Married child	3085	4.6%
4	Spouse of married child	2808	4.1%
5	Unmarried child	27204	40.2%
6	Grandchild	4485	6.6%
7	Father/mother/father-in-law/mother-in-law	1981	2.9%
8	Brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law/other relations	3332	4.9%
9	Servant/employee/or non-relatives	224	0.3%

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 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 - Dec 1991 NSS 47th Round