Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - June 1998
NSS 54th Round

India, 1998

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-54Rnd-Sch1.0-1998

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: 134315

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 57

End: 57

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	26937	20.1%
2	Spouse of head	22403	16.7%
3	Married child	6128	4.6%
4	Spouse of married child	6056	4.5%
5	Unmarried child	53500	39.8%
6	Grandchild	10133	7.5%
7	Father/mother/father-in-law/mother-in-law	3609	2.7%
8	Brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law/other relations	5288	3.9%
9	Servant/employee/or non-relatives	260	0.2%

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 - June 1998 NSS 54th Round