DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch-0dot21-2002
Urban Slums Survey, July - December 2002
NSS 58th Round
USS 2002 : NSS 58th Round
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| India | IND |
Socio-Economic/Household Survey
The first nationwide survey on the ‘economic condition of slum dwellers in urban cities’ was conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) in its 31st round enquiry (July 1976 - June 1977). The survey was restricted to (i) all the Class I towns having 1971 census population one lakh or more and (ii) two Class II towns, viz. Shillong and Pondicherry. Only the cities proper and not the urban
agglomerations were considered for the survey coverage. For identifying ‘undeclared slums’, a slum was defined as an areal unit having twenty five or more katcha structures mostly of temporary nature, or fifty or more households residing mostly in katcha structures, huddled together, or inhabited by persons with practically no private latrine and inadequate public latrine and water facilities. The
survey results were published in NSS Report No. 290: Condition of Slum Areas in Cities.
The second nationwide survey on particulars of slums was conducted by the NSSO in its 49th round enquiry (January - June 1993), which covered rural as well as urban areas. Two kinds of slums – ‘declared’ and ‘undeclared’ – were covered. Certain areas declared as ‘slums’ by the appropriate municipality, corporation, local body or development authorities were the ‘declared slums’. Outside the declared slums, any compact area with a collection of poorly built tenements, mostly of temporary nature, crowded together – usually with inadequate sanitary and drinking water facilities – in unhygienic conditions was considered an ‘undeclared slum’, if at least 20 households lived in that area.
The present survey – After a gap of nearly ten years, the third survey in the series was conducted in the 58th round enquiry (July-December 2002). The concept of slum being basically urban, the Governing Council of the NSSO decided, on the recommendation of the Working Group on NSS 58th round, to cover only urban slums in the survey. Like the 49th round survey, this survey, too, dealt with the availibility and not the adequacy of facilities available in the slums.
The aim was to collect information on the present condition of the slums and on the change in the condition of some facilities available therein. Like the 58th round survey, this survey was confined to the urban sector. Only slums found in the randomly selected urban blocks were surveyed.
The NSSO conducted an integrated household survey in its 58th round during the period July 2002 to December 2002. Some general features about the slum, including information on any improvement/change in the condition with respect to some amenities of the
slum during the last 5 years were collected in this survey through Schedule 0.21.
The main aim of the survey on condition of slums was to portray the condition of the urban slums, both notified and non-notified, with respect to infrastructural facilities like the area where the slum was located, road within and approaching the slum, electricity,
drinking water, sewerage, drainage, garbage disposal, etc. In addition, data on change in the condition of some of these facilities, and source of the improvement, if there was any such improvement over the last five years, were also collected.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Randomly selected urban slums based on sampling procedure.
V1.0; Re-organised anonymised dataset for public distribution.
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The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) conducted an integrated survey encompassing various aspects of the socio-economic scenario during July to December 2002. The survey, inter-alia, included the condition of urban slums. Unlike various other surveys conducted by the NSSO where the information is collected from each selected household, information on the civic facilities of the slums was collected from one or more knowledgeable persons from each of the selected slums. This was the third survey on slums after the 31st round (1976-77) and the 49th round (January-June 1993). As the slum is essentially an urban phenomenon, this survey covered only the urban areas.
Schedule 0.21 was framed to collect information on the present condition of the slums and on the change in the condition of some facilities available therein. The schedule was canvassed for each surveyed urban block having slum(s). Thus the schedule was canvassed in the urban sector only. Information on each slum, notified or non-notified, found in the entire selected first stage unit (FSU) was collected even if sub-block formation was resorted to. In some cases, the slum covered such a large area that it cuts across more than one FSU, and the selected FSU was part of the slum. In such cases, all the slum particulars recorded was related to only that part of the slum, which fell in the selected FSU. However, if the FSU contained a part of a notified slum with at least 20 households, then the part of the slum falling in the FSU was regarded as a notified slum and the schedule was canvassed accordingly
Schedule 0.21 consisted of eight blocks. Blocks 0 and 1 meant to record the identification particulars of the selected urban FSU. Blocks 2, 5, 6 and 7 contained particulars of field operations, remarks by the investigator/senior investigator, comments by superintendent/senior superintendent and comments by other supervisory officer(s). In Blocks 3 and 4, data were recorded for each slum inside the selected FSU and contains information on ownership, area type, structure, living facilities like electricity, drinking water, latrine, sewerage, drainage, garbage disposal, distance of the slum from nearest primary school and government hospital/health centre. It also provides information on the change in the condition of the urban slums during the last five years along with the sources of improvement of the facilities, if any.
The survey covered the whole URBAN area of the Indian Union.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Sample Survey Office | M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Survey Design Reearch Division | National Sample Survey Office | Questionnaire Desgn, Sampling methodology,Survey Reports |
| Field Operations Division | National Sample Survey Office | Field Work |
| Data Processing Division | National Sample Survey Office | Data Processing |
| Computer Centre | M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) | Dissemination |
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI | MOSPI |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Governing council and Working Group | GOI | Finalisation of survey study and Questionnaire |
A stratified sampling design was adopted for selection of the sample first-stage units (FSUs). The FSUs, for the survey on condition of slums were Urban Frame Survey (UFS) blocks in urban areas. Information on each slum, notified or non-notified, found in the entire
selected first stage units (FSUs) was collected. In some cases, area of a slum was very large and the selected FSU was part of the slum. In such cases, information was collected for the slum area falling under the sample FSU only. However, if the slum was notified, then the part of it falling under the sample FSU was considered as a notified slum. It may be noted that if a slum had cut across more than one FSU, all the slum particulars would relate to the part of the slum which fell in the selected FSU. A detailed discussion on the sample design and estimation procedure followed in the survey is given as an attachment to external resources.
There was no deviation from the original sample deviation.
A total of 3552 FSUs (i.e., UFS blocks) were selected for the Central sample in this survey, of which 3538 could be surveyed (a response rate of 99.6 percent). At the all-India level, a total of692 slums were covered in these surveyed urban blocks.
Sample weights were calculated and included in each of the data files.
Variable 'Wgt_SS' refers to Multiplier for each Subsample.
Variable 'Wgt_Combined' refers to Combined Multiplier.
Schedule 0.21 consists of 6 blocks. The blocks are:
Block 0: descriptive identification of sample FSU (Urban)
Block 1: identification of sample FSU (Urban)
Block 2: particulars of field operations
Block 3: particulars about the slum
Block 4: change in the condition of the slum during the last 5 years
Block 5: remarks by investigator/senior investigator
Block 6: comments by supervisory officers.
See the attached technical document in external resources.
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2002-07-01 | 2002-09-30 |
| 2002-10-01 | 2002-12-31 |
| Name | Affiliation | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
| Field Operations Division of Naional Sample Survey Office | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation | NSSO(FOD) |
The entire survey period (1st July 2002 - 31st December 2002) was divided into two sub-rounds of three months’ duration each
(Sub-round 1: July-September 2002, Sub -round 2: October-December 2002) and an equal number of sample blocks were allocated to each sub-round. Each FSU was surveyed during the sub-round period to which it was allocated. Within a particular sub-round, the field-work was spread out uniformly over the different months to the extent possible.Unlike household surveys where data are collected from a member of each household selected for the survey, data were collected in this survey for the entire slum from knowledgeable persons as judged by survey officials.
See the attached technical document in external resources.
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Centre | M/O Statistics and Programme Implementation | http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx | nssodata@gmail.com |
Validated unit level data relating to various survey rounds are available on CD-ROMS which can be obtained from the Deputy Director General, Computer Centre, M/O Statistics and PI, East Block No. 10 R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066 by remitting the price along with packaging and postal charges as well as giving an undertaking duly signed in a specified format.The amount is to be remitted by way of demand draft drawn in favour of Pay & Accounts Officer, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, payable at New Delhi.
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
| Name | Affiliation | URL |
|---|---|---|
| ADG, SDRD , NSSO | M/O Statistics & PI, G/O India | http://mospi.gov.in/ |
| DDG, Computer Centre | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation | http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx |
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch-0dot21-2002
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Centre | MOSPI, CC | M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation | Documentation of the study |
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