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Village Facilities Survey , July 2002-December 2002
NSS 58th Round

India, 2002
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    Survey ID number

    IND-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch3.1-VF-2002

    Title

    Village Facilities Survey , July 2002-December 2002

    Subtitle

    NSS 58th Round

    Abbreviation or Acronym

    VFS 2002 : NSS 58th Round

    Country
    Name Country code
    India IND
    Study type

    Living Standard Measurement-Village Facility Survey

    Series Information

    The National Sample Survey (NSS) used to collect data on availability of various infrastructure facilities in the villages more or less regularly till the NSS 22nd round (July '67 to June '68). Thereafter such information has been collected only in a few rounds. A detailed survey on village facilities was conducted by the NSSO during its 47th round. Some of the facilities available in the villages were collected along with the listing operation during the 52nd round also. The Governing Council of the NSSO decided to collect information on village facilities along with some information on availability of facilities for the disabled persons in the villages, as per recommendations of the Working Group for the 58th round.

    Abstract

    Through this schedule, it is aimed to collect information relating to availability of some general facilities to the villagers like electricity connection, drinking water, government development programmes, etc. and also some specified facilities relating to education, health and rehabilitation of the disabled persons. Information in this schedule relate to the entire sample village (Panchayat ward in Kerala) even if hamlet-group formation has been resorted to. If a facility is available in general to the villagers, it is considered as a facility. The required information has been obtained by contacting the village officials and / or other knowl­edgeable person(s). In case they were not aware of the existence of a particular facility, the nearest Block Development Officer or other relat­ed Agencies were contacted for collection of the relevant information.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Randomly selected Villages based on sampling procedure

    Version

    Version Description

    V 1.0: Re-organised anonymized dataset for public distribution

    Version Date

    2012-03-08

    Scope

    Notes

    A large section of India's population lives in rural areas. It was thus pertinent to know the quality of life of the people in the villages, which in turn largely depended on the facilities available to the villages.

    Also, policy interventions aimed at improving the quality of life in the villages demanded information on the facilities available to the people of rural India.
    Information on the availability of various infrastructural facilities in the villages used to be collected by the National Sample Survey, more or less regularly, till the NSS 22nd round. Thereafter such information had been collected only in a few NSS rounds. During the NSS 47th round (July-December 1991), the main subject of which was ‘Disability and Culture’, a detailed survey on the facilities available to the villages was conducted. Similar information on village facilities was also collected along with the listing operations during the 52nd round (1995-96).

    Since then there was not much information collected on the village facilities in India. Therefore, urgent need was felt by the Government to undertake the collection of information on village facilities led to an enquiry on availability of facilities in villages through the 58th round of NSS (July-December 2002).

    The enquiry included the collection of of various infrastructural facilities in the village. the main thrust was on availability of some general facilities to the villagers like electricity connection, drinking water, government development programmes, etc., and also some specified
    facilities relating to education, health and rehabilitation of the disabled persons.

    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary
    Education World Bank
    Health World Bank
    Infrastructure World Bank
    Social Development World Bank
    Energy World Bank
    Keywords
    Availability of electricity Non-conventional energy:Energy generated through other means was treated as non-conventional energy for the purpose of this survey Energy generated through other means was treated as non-conventional energy for the purpose of this survey Non-conventional energy bio-gas, solar energy, wind energy Drainage system Community TV centre Cable TV Cooperative Society Self-help Group Distance of location of a facility Educational Facilities Pre-Primary School;Primary School;Middle School;Secondary School;Higher Secondary School/Junior College College with Degree Courses;Industrial Training Institute (ITI): Non-formal Education Centre (NFEC); Health Facilities Sub-centre/ Dispensary;Primary Health Centre;Community Health Centre/ Government Hospital Private Hospital;Private Clinic/ Doctor;Medicine Shop Other Facilities Integrated Child Development Service Centre (Anganwadi/ Balwadi): Telegraph Office/ PCO/ E-mail Bank Veterinary Hospital/Dispensary Fertilizer/ Pesticide Shop Fair Price Shop Facilities for Disabled Persons Integrated Educational Centre Special School for the Blind Special School for the Deaf and Dumb Special School for the Mentally Retarded: Vocational Training Centre Institution / Organization for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons Mobile Rehabilitation Services

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Geographical coverage: The survey covered the whole of the Indian Union except (i) Leh and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir, (ii) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond five kilometres of the bus route and (iii) villages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands which remain inaccessible throughout the year.

    Universe

    The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected villages.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    NSSO Ministry of Statistics and PI, Government of India
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    SDRD Ministry of Statistics and PI, Govt of India Questonnaire design, sampling methodology and data analysis
    Field Office Division Ministry of Statistics and PI, Govt of India data collection
    Data Processing Division Ministry of Statistics and PI, Govt of India data processing
    Computer Centre Ministry of Statistics and PI, Govt of India Dissemination and Website hosting
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Abbreviation
    Ministry of Statiistics and PI MOSPI, Government of India
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name Affiliation Role
    Governing council NSSO, GOI Formulation of Survey design

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    Broad sample design (rural): A stratified multi-stage design was adopted for the survey of the NSS 58th round. The first stage units were 1991 Census villages (Panchayat wards for Kerala) in general and 1981 Census villages for Jammu & Kashmir. Normally, the rural areas of each district formed a stratum. Wherever the rural population of a district exceeded a certain limit, the district was divided into a number of strata. The sample villages were selected with probability proportional to population (except for special strata consisting of small villages where simple random sampling was done), in the form of two independent sub-samples from each stratum. In all, 4646 sample villages were surveyed at the all-India level in this round.

    Outline of Sample Design: A stratified multi-stage design was adopted for the conduct of the NSS 58th round. The first-stage units were census villages (panchayat wards for Kerala) in the rural sector.

    Sampling Frame for First-Stage Units: For the rural sector, the list of Census 1991 villages (panchayat wards for Kerala) constituted the sampling frame, except in the case of J & K where Census 1981 villages formed the frame.

    Stratification :
    Rural sector: Two special strata were formed at the State/ UT level on the basis of the population census of 1991, viz.
    Stratum 1: all FSUs with population between 0 and 50, and
    Stratum 2: FSUs with population more than 15,000
    Special stratum 1 was formed if at least 50 such FSUs were found in a State/UT.
    Similarly, special stratum 2 was formed if at least 4 such FSUs were found in a
    State/UT. Otherwise, such FSUs were merged with the general strata.
    From the remaining FSUs (not covered under strata 1 & 2) general strata (hereafter, stratum will refer to general stratum unless otherwise mentioned) were formed and numbered 3, 4, 5, etc. (even if no special strata had been formed). Each district of a State/UT was normally treated as a separate stratum. However, if the provisional population of the district was greater than or equal to 2.5 million as per Census 2001, the district was divided into two or more strata with more or less equal populations as per Census 1991 by grouping contiguous tehsils. However, in Gujarat, some districts were not wholly contained in an NSS region. In such cases, the part of the district falling in an NSS region constituted a separate stratum.

    Total sample size (FSUs): A total of 4834 FSUs were selected for survey as the Central sample for the rural sector.

    Allocation of rural sample to strata/ sub-strata: In the rural sector the sample size allotted to a State/UT were allocated to different strata in proportion to populations of the strata. All the stratum- level allocations were adjusted to multiples of 2.

    Selection of FSUs: FSUs were selected in the form of two independent subsamples.
    For special stratum 2 and all the general strata of the rural sector, FSUs were selected by probability proportional to size with replacement (PPSWR) where size was the 1991 Census population.

    Deviations from the Sample Design

    There was no deviation from the original sampling design

    Response Rate

    Number of units (villages) to be surveyed : 4786
    Number of units responded : 4646
    Response rate (%) : 97.07

    Weighting

    Multiplier has been computed for sub-sample and combined.
    WGT is the weight which should be applied for estimation.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Schedule 3.1 consists of the following 7 blocks:

    Block 0: descriptive identification of sample village
    Block 1: identification of sample village
    Block 2: particulars of field operation
    Block 3: availability of some facilities
    Block 4: distance from nearest facility
    Block 5: remarks by investigator
    Block 6: comments by supervisory officer(s)

    Blocks 3 and 4 are the main blocks of this schedule. Block 3 is meant for recording the information relating to availability of some facilities to the villagers. Block 4 is for recording the information relating to distance of specified facilities from the centre of the sample village.
    Blocks 0 & 1 are meant for recording the identification particulars of the sample village. Block 2, 5 and 6 are used for recording the particulars relating to field operations, Remarks of the investigators and those of the supervisory officer(s) respectively.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2002-07-01 2002-12-31
    Time periods
    Start date End date Cycle
    2002-07-01 2002-12-31 2 sub-rounds of 3 months each
    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face [f2f]
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation Abbreviation
    Field Office Division (NSSO) Minstry of Statistics and PI, Govt. of India FOD (NSSO)
    Supervision

    Field Office Division of NSSO, Ministry of Statistics and PI

    Data Collection Notes

    The information on the facilities available to the villagers was collected from one or more knowledgeable persons of the village. In case there were
    more than one source, then the informant from whom the maximum information was collected was considered. It is observed that 79% of the
    informants were Sarpanches or other Panchayat Members or Gram Sevaks/other village officials.

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    Data was collected as per the Questionnaire 3.1. But for processing purposes, a flat file was created using the identification particulars from Block 1 and Village facility information from Block 3 and Block 4. Data editing, scrutiny and validation were carried out as per the scrutiny checks and corrected manually.

    Data appraisal

    Data Appraisal

    Comparison of availability of educational facilities between NSS 47th round and 58th rounds of NSS.
    Comparison in respect of availability of facilities for the disabled between the 47th and 58th rounds of the NSS.
    Few results showed :

    • Pre-primary school facilities were available in 66% of India's villages in 2002 compared to only 39% in 1991.
      · 72% of the villages had primary school facilities in 2002 compared to 67% in 1991.
    • Facilities for the disabled such as schools for the blind, the deaf and dumb, and the mentally retarded were extremely rare, the situation in this respect being no better than it was 11 years ago.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DDG, Computer Centre Ministry of Statistics and PI www.mospi.gov.in pc.mohanan@nic.in
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes The NSSO data are strictly confidential and are to be used only for statistical purposes.
    Access conditions

    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.

    Citation requirements

    NSSO 58th Round Scgedule 3.1 Village Facility (2002)

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    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.

    Copyright

    NSSO, Ministry of Statistics and PI

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    ADG, SDRD MOSPI mospi.gov.in
    DDG (CC) MOSPI pc.mohanan@nic.in mospi.gov.in

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI-IND-NSS-58Rnd-SCH-3.1-Village-Facilities-2002

    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    Computer Centre CC MInistry of Statistics and PI (MOSPI) Documentation of the study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2012-03-08

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 1.0 (march 2012)

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