IND-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch3.1-VF-2002
Village Facilities Survey , July 2002-December 2002
NSS 58th Round
VFS 2002 : NSS 58th Round
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| India | IND |
Living Standard Measurement-Village Facility Survey
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.
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.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Randomly selected Villages based on sampling procedure
V 1.0: Re-organised anonymized dataset for public distribution
2012-03-08
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.
| Topic | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Education | World Bank |
| Health | World Bank |
| Infrastructure | World Bank |
| Social Development | World Bank |
| Energy | World Bank |
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.
The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected villages.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| NSSO | Ministry of Statistics and PI, Government of India |
| 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 |
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Statiistics and PI | MOSPI, Government of India |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Governing council | NSSO, GOI | Formulation of Survey design |
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.
There was no deviation from the original sampling design
Number of units (villages) to be surveyed : 4786
Number of units responded : 4646
Response rate (%) : 97.07
Multiplier has been computed for sub-sample and combined.
WGT is the weight which should be applied for estimation.
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.
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2002-07-01 | 2002-12-31 |
| Start date | End date | Cycle |
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| 2002-07-01 | 2002-12-31 | 2 sub-rounds of 3 months each |
| Name | Affiliation | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
| Field Office Division (NSSO) | Minstry of Statistics and PI, Govt. of India | FOD (NSSO) |
Field Office Division of NSSO, Ministry of Statistics and PI
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 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.
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 :
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DDG, Computer Centre | Ministry of Statistics and PI | www.mospi.gov.in | pc.mohanan@nic.in |
| 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. |
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.
NSSO 58th Round Scgedule 3.1 Village Facility (2002)
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.
NSSO, Ministry of Statistics and PI
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADG, SDRD | MOSPI | mospi.gov.in | |
| DDG (CC) | MOSPI | pc.mohanan@nic.in | mospi.gov.in |
DDI-IND-NSS-58Rnd-SCH-3.1-Village-Facilities-2002
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Centre | CC | MInistry of Statistics and PI (MOSPI) | Documentation of the study |
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