Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994
NSS 50th Round

India, 1993 - 1994

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch1.0-1993-94

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National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Type of Dwelling (B12_q4)

Data file: Blocks 1,2,3,10,11,12,13_Household characteristics

Overview

Valid: 115354

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 257

End: 257

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the type of dwelling of the household? Is it an independent house or a flat or a chawl or bustee or any other type of dwelling?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Independent house	89930	78%
2	Flat	8206	7.1%
3	Chawl / Bustee	8740	7.6%
9	Others	8478	7.3%

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

Information on the type of dwelling unit will be entered against this item in codes. The codes are :
independent house - 1, flat - 2, chawl - 3, others - 9.

An independent house is one which has a separate structure and entrance with self-contained arrangements. In other words, if the dwelling unit land the entire structure of the house are physically the ;same it should be considered an independent house. In some parts especially in rural areas, two or more structures together may constitute a single housing unit.
such as housing will also be treated as an independent house.

A flat is a self-contained housing arrangement occupying a portion of a building. It consists of one or more rooms with normal housing facilities like water supply, bath and toilet for exclusive use of a single household. If a household occupying a portion of a building has some housing facilities like water supply, bath and/or toilet for its exclusive use in a detached structure(s), it is also regarded as occupying a flat.

A chawl may be described as a building with a numbers of generally single-roomed having common corridor and bathing and toilet facilities. In case of three/four storeyed chawl the common facilities of a bath land toilet may be ;available in each floor for the tenements of that floor.

Others : covers all other types of housing arrangements. This will include flat-like dwellings which are not self-contained in respect of water, bath and toilets facilities, hostel accommodation etc.

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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994 NSS 50th Round