India - Situation Assessment Survey of Farmers, 2003, NSS 59th Round

India Situation Assessment Survey of Farmers, 2003

NSS 59th Round

Enterprise Survey The NSSO, since its inception in 1950, has played a major role in providing the socio-economic data needed- from all spheres of life-to formulate of a vibrant plan for social and economic development. The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) took up the special study on Indian farmers and conducted the Situation Assessment Survey of Farmers during 2003 in the rural areas as part of the NSS 59th round. The Situation Assessment Survey of Farmers is the first of its kind to be conducted by NSSO. Though information on a majority of items to be collected through SAS have been collected in some round or other of NSS, an integrated schedule, viz., Schedule 33, covering some basic characteristics of farmer households and their access to basic and modern farming resources will be canvassed for the first time in SAS. Moreover, information on consumption of various goods and services in an abridged form are also to be collected to have an idea about the pattern of consumption expenditure of the farmer households.

Schedule 33 is designed for collection of information on aspects relating to farming and other socio-economic characteristics of farmer households. The information will be collected in two visits to the same set of sample households. The first visit will be made during January to August 2003 and the second, during September to December 2003. The survey will be conducted in rural areas only. It will be canvassed in the Central Sample except for the States of Maharashtra and Meghalaya where it will be canvassed in both State and Central

samples.

ID Number IND-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch33-SAF-2003

The scope of Situation Assessment Survey includes:

- Household characteristics

- Demographic and other particulars of household members (viz., relation to head, sex, age, marital status and general education), nature of work, current weekly status, wage and salary earnings etc.

- Perception of household regarding sufficiency of food

- Perceptions regarding some general aspects of farming

- Particulars of land possessed during Kharif/Rabi

- Area under irrigation during Kharif/Rabi

- Some particulars of farming resources used for cultivation during Kharif / Rabi

- Use of energy during

- Loans and other liabilities payable by the household

- Access to modern agricultural technology

- Purchase and sale of productive assets

- Expenses and receipts (in Rs) for cultivation (information on expenses incurred towards cultivation and receipts

obtained from output and/or value of by products of the cultivated products)

- Expenses and receipts (in Rs) on farming of animals

- Expenses on non-farm business

- Receipts for running non-farm business

- Consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants

- Consumption of clothing, footwear

- Expenditure on education and medical (institutional) goods and services

- Expenditure on miscellaneous goods and services including medical (non-institutional), rents and taxes

- Expenditure for purchase and construction (including repair and maintenance) of durable goods for domestic use

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Infrastructure	World Bank
Social Development	World Bank
Macroeconomics & Growth	World Bank
Labor & Social Protection	World Bank

Unorganised Services (Excluding Trade and Finance) Unorganised Services (Excluding Trade and Finance) Unorganised Services (Excluding Trade and Finance) Unorganised Services (Excluding Trade and Finance), Mixed Activity, Broad Activity Group, Segment number, Own account enterprise (OAE), establishment Enterprise, 5-digit code as per NIC-1998, Nature pf operations - seasonal, perennien and casual, Type of ownership, registered under companies act, Rent, gross value added, Employment, Worker, Fixed assets owned and hired, Banks, Financial Institutions The survey covered rural sector of Indian Union except (i) Leh (Ladakh) 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 did not cover the service sector enterprises pursuing the activities of wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods (G); financial intermediation (J); public administration and defence (L); private households with employed persons (P) and extra-territorial organisations and bodies (Q).

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

2012-11-18 Version 1.0 (November, 2012)

DDI-IND-NSS-59Rnd-SCH-33-Situation-Assessment-2003