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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Wall type (code) (B6_q18)

Data file: Block-6-Particulars of dwelling-Records

Overview

Valid: 119403

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 83

End: 83

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NA	435	0.4%
1	Grass, straw, leaves, reods, bomboo , etc,	14647	12.3%
2	Mud ( with/without bamboo) , unburnt brick	37092	31.1%
3	canvas , cloth	115	0.1%
4	Other katcha	2228	1.9%
5	Timber	1967	1.6%
6	Burnt brick , stone , limestone	52221	43.7%
7	Iron or other metal sheet	602	0.5%
8	cement , RBC , RCC	8471	7.1%
9	Other pucca	1625	1.4%

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 basic building materials with which the floor , walls and roof of the dwelling unit are constructed will be collected and recorded in codes against items 17 , 18 and 19 respectively.
When the basic building materials used are different for different walls , the materials used for greater portion of wall area of the dwelling will be the wall type. For determining the wall type , only the walls of the dwelling will be considered. Roof / floor type will also be determined , similarly , if the different portions of the roof / floor are made of different building materials. For determining the material of the roof , the material of which the outer roof exposed to the weather ( and not the ceiling ) is made i. e. tiles , thatch , corrugated iron , zinc or asbestos sheet etc. Will be considered. However , if the roof is mainly made of bricks , stone etc. with a mud , cement or lime plaster exposes to the sky , the material of roof will not be mud , cement , lime etc. and it will be brick , stone etc. which constituted the fabric of the roof. In multi-storeyed buildings , roof will refer to the top floor roof.

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