Housing Condition Survey, July - December 2002
NSS 58th Round

India, 2002

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch1dot2-2002

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Married couples (B6_q17)

Data file: Block6-records

Overview

Valid: 93418

Invalid: 4464

Minimum: 0.0

Maximum: 58.0

Mean: 1.094992399751654

Standard deviation: 0.6913732068167056

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If code not =4 in Q.1 ask

Literal question

Total number of married couples in the household

Categories

Value	Cases
0	10077	10.8%
1	68523	73.4%
2	11705	12.5%
3	2448	2.6%
4	494	0.5%
5	128	0.1%
6	21	0%
7	8	0%
8	5	0%
9	5	0%
11	2	0%
52	1	0%
58	1	0%

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

Total number of married couples in the household irrespective of their ages is to be recorded in this item. A man with two wives in a household will constitute two married couples. But one woman with two husbands in a household will form a single couple.

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Housing Condition Survey, July - December 2002 NSS 58th Round