Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 1993 - June 1994
NSS 50th Round

India, 1993 - 1994

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch10-1993-94

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Collections

Employment and Unemployment

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Purpose of loan/debt (B10_q5)

Data file: Block-10-Loan_Records

Overview

Valid: 9076

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 50

End: 50

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Purpose of loan/debt

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Medical Expenses	759	8.4%
2	Education Expenses	70	0.8%
3	Legal Expenses	107	1.2%
4	Other Consumption Expenses	4459	49.1%
5	Marriage And Other Ceremonial Expenses	899	9.9%
6	Purchase Of Land And Construction Of Building	522	5.8%
7	Productive Purpose	1331	14.7%
8	Repayment Of Debt	126	1.4%
9	Others	803	8.8%

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 purpose for which the loan has been contracted by the household will be recorded in this column in terms of codes.If a particular loan is taken to meet more than one purpose, the purpose for which large part of the loan is intended to be utilised will be considered for recording entries against this column.
The purpose of loan taken for legal expenses to be incurred towards enterprise account will get code 7. While code 4 will cover for loans taken for the purpose of food consumption, consumption of clothing, purchase of durable goods, etc.

Description

Universe

For Rural Households only

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Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 1993 - June 1994 NSS 50th Round