India - Unorganised Manufacture : July 2000-June 2001, NSS 56th Round

As usual, a stratified two-stage sampling design has been adopted. The first-stage units are the villages (Panchayat wards in case of Kerala) in the rural areas and urban
blocks in the urban areas. The second-stage units are the enterprises for the survey of unorganised manufacture and households for the survey on household consumer expenditure.

Sample Size (FSU's) : The total sample size (i.e. total number of villages and blocks to be surveyed) at all-India level has been fixed as 14,072 for the central sample and 16,080 for the state sample.

Allocation of sample FSU's between rural and urban sectors : State/u.t. level total sample size (i.e. total number of villages and blocks to be surveyed) has been allocated between the rural and urban sectors in proportion to population as per 1991 census
with double weightage to the urban sector. All these allocations are rounded off to multiples of 8 in order to facilitate further allocation among different sub-sample and sub-round combinations.

More details on sample design is in external resources.


There was no deviation from the original sampling design


WGT- Multiplier has been provided for sub-sample and combined. This should be used as multiplier factor for Sub sample and Combined sample.