Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - Dec 1997
NSS 53rd Round

India, 1997

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-53Rnd-Sch1.0-1997

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Relation to Head Code (B4_q3)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 249818

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 55

End: 55

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
0	Not reported	1	0%
1	Head	51864	20.8%
2	Spouse of head	41474	16.6%
3	Married child	11335	4.5%
4	Spouse of married child	10506	4.2%
5	Unmarried child	98240	39.3%
6	Grandchild	17697	7.1%
7	Father/mother/father-in-law/mother-in-law	7150	2.9%
8	Brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law/other relations	10749	4.3%
9	Servant/employee/or non-relatives	802	0.3%

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

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 - Dec 1997 NSS 53rd Round