2nd stg strm / schedule type (Second_Stratum)
File: Blocks 1,3_Household Characteristics
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 26949
Invalid: 0
Questions and instructions
Literal question
2nd stg strm / Sch. Type
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 13591 50.4%
2 13358 49.6%
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.
Others
Notes
There are two schedule types, one with a fixed reference period of 'last 30 days' and the other (schedule type 2) with different reference periods for different groups of consumption items as follows:

Item Reference period
food items, pan, tobacco and
intoxicants last 7 days
fuel and light, miscellaneous goods
and services and medical (non-institutional) last 30 days
educational, medical (institutional),
clothing, footwear and durable goods last 365 days

This approach adopted for schedule type 2 has been devised to take into account the variation in the periodicity with which different items of consumption are purchased by individual households, in a better way. It was ensured, by suitably setting survey dates for sample FSU's, that equal numbers of schedule type 2 households were surveyed in different weeks of each month.

Schedule type 1 was canvassed in fsu's with odd sample village/block number (item 13 of block 1) and Schedule type 2 was canvassed in fsu's with even sample village/block number.