Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2002 - Dec 2002
NSS 58th Round

India, 2002

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch1.0-2002

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Collections

Household Consumption Expenditure

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Jan 17, 2018

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Relation to Head Code (B4_q3)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 154190

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 78

End: 78

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
1	Head	32669	21.2%
2	Spouse of head	25923	16.8%
3	Married child	7240	4.7%
4	Spouse of married child	6884	4.5%
5	Unmarried child	59129	38.3%
6	Grandchild	11628	7.5%
7	Father/mother/father-in-law/mother-in-law	4172	2.7%
8	Brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law/other relations	6115	4%
9	Servant/employee/or non-relatives	430	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, July 2002 - Dec 2002 NSS 58th Round