Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - June 1993
NSS 49th Round

India

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-49Rnd-Sch1.0-1993

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Collections

Household Consumption Expenditure

Metadata

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Jan 17, 2018

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Relation to Head Code (B4_q3)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 149817

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 56

End: 56

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	30035	20%
2	Spouse of head	24479	16.3%
3	Married child	6678	4.5%
4	Spouse of married child	6364	4.2%
5	Unmarried child	60295	40.2%
6	Grandchild	10737	7.2%
7	Father/mother/father-in-law/mother-in-law	4114	2.7%
8	Brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law/other relations	6770	4.5%
9	Servant/employee/or non-relatives	345	0.2%

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, Jan - June 1993 NSS 49th Round