India - Village Facilities Survey ,July - December 1991, NSS 47th Round

India Village Facilities Survey ,July - December 1991, NSS 47th Round

Living Standard Measurement-Village Facility Survey The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has been set up by the Government of India in 1950 to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods. The NSSO conducts regular surveys as part of its “rounds”, each round being normally of a year's duration and covering more than one subject of study. The surveys are conducted through household interviews, using a random sample of households covering practically the entire geographical area of the country.

The National Sample Survey (NSS) used to collect data on availability of various infrastructure facilities in the villages more or less regularly till the NSS 22nd round (July '67 to June '68). Again in 1991, a detailed survey on village facilities was conducted by the NSSO during its 47th round. The Governing Council of the NSSO decided to collect information on village facilities along with some information on availability of facilities for the disabled persons in the villages, as per recommendations of the Working Group for the 47th round.

The field operations of the 47th NSS round commenced on 1st July 1991 and continued up to 31 Dec 1991. The field work for the survey was conducted, as usual, by the Field Operations Division of the Organisation. The collected data were processed by the Data Processing Division of NSSO and tabulated by the Computer Centre of Department of Statistics.

ID Number IND-NSSO-47Rnd-Sch3.1-VF-1991

A large section of India's population lives in rural areas. It was thus pertinent to know the quality of life of the people in the villages, which in turn largely depended on the facilities available to the villages.

Also, policy interventions aimed at improving the quality of life in the villages demanded information on the facilities available to the people of rural India.

Information on the availability of various infrastructural facilities in the villages used to be collected by the National Sample Survey, more or less regularly, till the NSS 22nd round. Thereafter such information was collected only in a few NSS rounds. During the NSS 47th round (July-December 1991), the main subject of which was ‘Disability and Culture’, a detailed survey on the facilities available to the villages was conducted.

The enquiry included the collection of information on availability of facilities to the disabled persons in the sample villages.

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Education	World Bank
Health	World Bank
Infrastructure	World Bank
Social Development	World Bank

Educational Facilities, Pre-Primary School;Primary School;Middle School;Secondary School;Higher Secondary School/Junior College, College with Degree Courses;Industrial Training Institute (ITI):, Distance of facility from the centre of Sample village, Non-formal Education Centre (NFEC);, Integrated Child Development Service Centre (Anganwadi/ Balwadi):, Facilities for Disabled Persons, Integrated Educational Centre, Special School for the Blind, Special School for the Deaf and Dumb, Special School for the Mentally Retarded:, Vocational Training Centre, Institution / Organization for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons, Mobile Rehabilitation Services, Pre-primary school/Primary school, Middle school, Secondary/Higher Secondary school, College with degree course Geographical coverage: The survey covered the whole of the Indian Union except (i) Leh 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 covered randomly selected Rural villages of the country.

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

2012-09-03 Version 1.0 (September, 2012)

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