India - Survey on Morbidity and Health Care January - June 2004, NSS 60th Round
Reference ID | IND-NSSO-SMHC-2004-v1.0 |
Year | 2004 |
Country | India |
Producer(s) | National Sample Survey Office - Ministry of Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) |
Sponsor(s) | Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI - |
Collection(s) |
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Jan 18, 2018
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Overview
Identification
IND-NSSO-SMHC-2004-v1.0 |
Version
v1.0 : Re-organised anonymised dataset for public distribution. 2012-12-30
Overview
The National Sample Survey made its first attempt to collect information on morbidity in the seventh round (Oct. 1953 - March 1954). This survey and the morbidity surveys conducted in the three subsequent rounds (the eleventh to the thirteenth, 1956-58) were all exploratory in nature. The aim of these surveys was to evolve an appropriate data collection method for studying morbidity profile in India. These surveys were followed up by a pilot survey in the seventeenth round (Sept. 1961 - July 1962) to examine alternative approaches of morbidity reporting. With the aid of the findings of these exploratory surveys, a full-scale survey on morbidity was conducted in the twenty-eighth round (Oct. 1973 - June 1974). Since then, the NSSO had not undertaken any separate morbidity survey and data on morbidity became a part of the decennial surveys on social consumption. The object of the present survey was essentially to study the benefits derived by various sections of the population from investments and outlays made by the Government, as well as by the private sector in the fields of health and get an estimate of expenditure incurred by households to avail health care services including immunization and maternity care.
The NSSO carried out the first all-India Survey on Social Consumption in its 35th round (July 1980 - June 1981). The items covered were the public distribution system, health services including mass immunisation and family welfare programmes, and educational services. The results of the survey could not be brought out owing to some unavoidable reasons. The second survey on Social Consumption was carried out in the 42nd round (July 1986 - June 1987) with some modifications in the coverage of subjects. Topics like Problems of Aged Persons were included in this round. The third Survey on Social Consumption was carried out in the 52nd round (July 1995 - June 1996). Two topics, viz. utilisation of the public distribution system and utilisation of family planning services, were dropped, as these were
covered in the NSS 50th round and in a nationwide survey by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, respectively.
After a gap of about nine years, the Governing Council decided to take up a survey on ‘Morbidity and Health care’ at the request of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, during the period January to June, 2004. The enquiry covered the curative aspects of the general health care system in India and also the utilization of health care services provided by the public and private sector, together with the expenditure incurred by the households for availing these services.
Sample survey data [ssd]
households
Scope
In the Sixtieth round of NSS, data was collected through a survey on the subject of ‘Morbidity and Health Care’. Apart from this subject, surveys were also undertaken separately on ‘Household Consumer Expenditure’ and ‘Employment and Unemployment’. In the survey on Morbidity and Health Care, the following main aspects were covered: (i) Morbidity and utilisation of health care services including immunisation and maternity care,
(ii) Problems of aged persons, and
(iii) Expenditure of the households for availing the health care services.
The object of the present survey was essentially to study the benefits derived by various sections of the population from investments and outlays made by the Government, as well as by the private sector in the fields of health and get an estimate of expenditure incurred by households to avail health care services including immunization and maternity care.
The data were collected from a sample of households by the interview method. A set of probing questions was put to as many individual members of a selected household as possible to ascertain whether they had suffered from any ailment during the reference period and whether they had taken any medical treatment for it. As far as possible, efforts were made to collect information relating to ailments of each household member from the member themselves. But in spite of the best efforts, some other person of the household might have provided this information, especially for the children and the aged persons in the household. Efforts were made to interview all the adult male members of each sample household, personally. For the children, particularly the young, attempts were made to get the required information from their mothers.
The enquiry on morbidity was conducted with a reference period of 15 days. All spells of ailment suffered by each member, both present as well as the deceased, of the sample household, during the 15 days preceding the date of enquiry, whether or not the patient was hospitalised for treatment, were covered in the survey. For hospitalised treatment, however, information was collected for every event of hospitalisation of a member, whether living or deceased at the time of survey, during the 365 days preceding the date of enquiry.
The schedule on morbidity and health care (Schedule 25.0) framed for the 60th round consists of 13 blocks.
Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
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Labor Markets | World Bank | http://www.surveynetwork.org/toolkit |
Coverage
National, State, Urban, RuralAll households
Producers and Sponsors
Name | Affiliation |
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National Sample Survey Office | Ministry of Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) |
Name | Affiliation | Role |
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Survey Design Reearch Division | National Sample Survey Office | Questionnaire Desgn, Sampling methodology,Survey Reports |
Field Operations Division | National Sample Survey Office | Field Work |
Data Processing Division | National Sample Survey Office | Data Processing |
Computer Centre | Ministry of Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) | Data Dissemination |
Name | Abbreviation | Role |
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Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI | MOSPI |
Name | Affiliation | Role |
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Governing council and Working Group | GOI | Finalisation of survey study and Questionnaire |
Metadata Production
Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
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Computer Centre | MOSPI, CC | M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation | Documentation of the study |
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