India - Housing Condition Survey, July 2008- June 2009, NSS 65th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-65Rnd-Sch1dot2-2008-09

Year

2008 - 2009

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Type of dwelling (B6_q1)
File: Block-6-Dwelling particulars-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 153244
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Type of dwelling

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Independent house	116271	75.9%
2	Flat	13589	8.9%
9	Others	23384	15.3%

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

The information on the type of the dwelling unit will be entered against this item in codes. The codes are: independent house-1, flat-.2, others-9.
Others” will include all other housing arrangements such as flat-like dwellings which are not self contained in respect of bath and toilet facilities. Huts/ tenements constructed of mud, bamboo, grass, leaves, reeds and other katcha materials, often found to be without self contained arrangement, will also be categorised as 'others'.