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

India, 2002
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IND-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch3.1-VF-2002
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Community health centre/govt. hospt (Bl4_q18)

Data file: Village_facility

Overview

Valid: 4641
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 91
End: 91
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How far is facility from Community health centre/govt. hospital
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 within village 320
6.9%
2 outside village: less than 2 km 232
5%
3 2 to 5 km 775
16.7%
4 5 to 10 km 1050
22.6%
5 10 km or more 2261
48.7%
9 NR 3
0.1%
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
distance should be coded as :
within village – 1; outside village: less than 2 km – 2, 2 to 5 km – 3,
5 to 10 km – 4, 10 km or more – 5

Description

Definition
Community Health Centre/ Government Hospital: A Community Health Centre (CHC) serves a population of 1.2 lakhs in the plains and 80,000 in the hilly/ tribal areas. The CHC functions as referral centre for the PHC. It is manned by medical specialists and paramedical staff and has in-patient and out-patient facilities. Medical institutions having provision of admission of sick persons as in-door patients (in-patients) for treatment are called hospitals. Hospitals run by the Central/ State government or local bodies like municipalities have been covered under this category.
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Distance from nearest facility ?
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