India - Debt and Investment Survey, January - December 1992, NSS 48th Round, Household Assets and Indebtedness of Social Groups

Reference ID

IND-NSSO-DIS-1992-v1

Year

1992

Country

India

Producer(s)

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

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 16, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Household size (B5_q1)
File: Blocks 1,2,3,4,5_Visit 1_Household characteristics

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-42

Valid cases: 0
Invalid: 0

Definition

Household
A household is a group of persons who normally live together and take food from a common kitchen. However, a boarding house, a hotel or a hostel is treated as a cluster of households, where each individual boarder forms a separate household. If, however, a group of persons among them normally pooled their income for spending, they together are treated as constituting a single household. Barracks of military and paramilitary forces, orphanages and vagrant-houses are excluded from the scope of the survey.

Household size:
The size of a household is taken to be the number of members normally residing in it. This size includes temporary stay-aways but excludes temporary visitors and guests of the household.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many members are there in the household?

Interviewer instructions

Size of the sample household i.e. the total number of persons normally residing together (under the same roof) and taking food from the same kitchen (including temporary stay-aways and excluding temporary visitors) will be recorded against this item. In the visit - 1 schedule, the entry against this item will be the same as the last serial number recorded in col. (1) of block 6.