India - Land and Livestock Holdings Survey Visit 2 , August - December 2013, NSS 70th Round

India Land and Livestock Holdings Survey Visit 2 , August - December 2013

NSS 70th Round

Socio-Economic/Household Survey The first survey on land holdings was taken up by the NSS in its 8th round (July 1954 - April 1955) as part of the World Agricultural Census initiated by the Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. In this survey, information on agricultural holdings was collected primarily to meet the requirements of the FAO. In addition, information on household ownership holdings was collected to provide the policy framers with the much-needed data for formulating land reforms policy for the country. A similar survey was conducted again in the 16th (July 1960-August 1961) and 17th (September 1961-July 1962) rounds of the NSS as a part of the World Agricultural Census Programme of 1960. Since then, NSSO has been regularly conducting land holding surveys every ten years or so. The next survey on land holding of NSSO was conducted in 26th round (July 1971-June 1972), simultaneously with a survey on Debt and Investment at the instance of the Reserve Bank of India. Thereafter, surveys on land and livestock holdings were conducted in 37th round (January-December 1982), 48th round (January-December 1992) and 59th round (January-December 2003), respectively.

The present survey on land and livestock holdings in the NSS 70th round has been conducted during January to December 2013. Each sample FSU was visited twice during this round; period of the first visit was January - July 2013 i.e. of 7 months' duration and that of the second visit was August - December 2013 i.e. of 5 months' duration. Separate schedules were designed for visit-1 and visit-2, having more or less a common structure, avoiding repeated collection of a few items of information which are not likely to change. In visit-1, information pertaining to the period July - December 2012 was collected, whereas reference period for the information collected in visit-2 was January - June 2013.

Information on livestock, poultry, duckery, etc., owned by the household as on the date of survey was collected only once during visit-1. However, in visit-2, some general information of the household operational holdings for the whole agricultural year was additionally collected for the households who made agricultural use of at least one plot in both the reference periods.

ID Number DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-70th-Sch18dot1-visit2-2013

The 70th round (January 2013 - December 2013) of NSS is earmarked for surveys on land and livestock holdings, debt and investment and situation assessment survey of agricultural households. The last survey on these subjects was conducted in 59th round of NSS (January 2003 - December 2003).

Geographical coverage: The survey covered the rural area of the whole of the Indian Union.

Population coverage: The following rules were adhered to:

1. Floating population, i.e., persons without any normal residence, was excluded. But persons residing in open space, roadside shelter, under a bridge, etc., more or less regularly in the same place were covered.

2. Foreign nationals were excluded, as well as their domestic servants, if by definition the latter belonged to the foreign national's household.

3. Persons residing in barracks of military and paramilitary forces (like police, BSF etc.) were kept outside the survey coverage. However, the civilian population residing in their neighbourhood, including the family quarters of service personnel, was covered.

4. Orphanages, rescue homes, ashrams and vagrant houses were outside the survey coverage. However, the persons staying in old age homes, the students staying in

ashram/hostels and the residential staff (other than monks/nuns) of these ashrams were covered. Although orphans living in orphanages were excluded, the persons looking

after them and staying there were covered. Convicted prisoners undergoing sentence were outside the coverage of the survey.

Sample size

First stage Units: A total of 4529 villages were surveyed as First stage Units (FSUs) in NSS 70th round for the Central sample at all-India level. In addition to this, State samples are also surveyed by the State/UT Governments who participated in this survey. The results presented in this document are based on Central sample alone.

Second Stage Units: Since, this schedule was canvassed in the rural areas only, the first stage units (FSU) were the census villages (Panchayat wards in case of Kerala), and the Second Stage Units (SSU) were the households. For the purpose of selection in case of Sch.18.1, all households in a sample village were classified into four Second Stage Strata (SSS) based on area of land possessed viz. less than 0.005 hectare-1, equal to or more than 0.005 hectare but less than 1.000 hectare -2, equal to or more than 1.000 hectare but less than 2.000 hectares -3, equal to or more than 2.000 hectares -4. Thereafter, 8 households were surveyed from each sample village, taking 2 household from each SSS.

Each of the sample households were visited once in visit-1 and in visit-2. However, a few households of visit-1 became ‘casualty’ while surveying in visit-2. At all-India level, a total of 35604 households were surveyed in visit-1 and 35337 of them could be surveyed in visit-2.

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Labor Markets	World Bank	http://www.surveynetwork.org/toolkit

Household Operational Holding, Household ownership Holding, Patern in land use of Households, Crop production of Households, Animal Farming of Households, Seasonal variation in household operational holding, ownership of livestock, poultry, duckery, etc The survey covered the rural area of the whole of the Indian Union.

The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Computer Centre	MOSPI, CC	M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation	Study Document

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