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Housing Condition and Migration Survey, January - June 1993
NSS 49th Round

India, 1993
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-49Rnd-Sch1dot2-1993
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Bldg location area type (code) (B5_q1)

Data file: Block-5-Building and environment particulars- Records

Overview

Valid: 119403
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 46
End: 46
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Area type in which building is located
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 No building 119
0.1%
2 Squatter settlement 1318
1.1%
3 Undeclared slum 7862
6.6%
4 Declared slum 3124
2.6%
5 Other areas 106952
89.6%
9 Invalid 28
0%
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
Information on the type of area in which the building housing the sample household is located will be recorded against this item in terms of codes. 4.4.3 To collect this information, part from the informant belonging to the sample household, some knowledgeable persons of the locality may have to be contacted. For a household living under a tree or bridge, in a pipe, or on a footpath without a structure etc.code 1 will be recorded and item 2 to 15 of this block will be left bland.
Some times an area develops into an unauthorised settlement with unauthorised structures put up by `squatters . such an area, if not categorised as a slum area, will be considered as a ` “squatter settlement” and buildings in such an area will get code 2 for item 1. If the building is situated in a slum area, then code 4 will be recorded if the area is declared as a slum by the municipality or other appropriate authorities and otherwise code 3 will be recorded. For all other areas code 5 will be recorded against this item. ( for definition of slum area see para 2.0.12. )
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