India - Urban Slums Survey, July - December 2002, NSS 58th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch-0dot21-2002

Year

2002

Country

India

Producer(s)

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

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Stratum (Stratum)
File: Block-3-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 692
Invalid: 0

Definition

In the urban sector, stratum was formed within each NSS region on the basis of size class of towns as per Census 1991 town population The stratum number and their composition (within each region) are given below:

stratum 1:all towns with population (P) < 0.1 mliln
stratum 2:all towns with 0.1= P < 0.5 million
stratum 3:all towns with 0.5= P < 1 million
stratum 4,5,6, … each town with P= 1 million

The stratum numbers was retained as above even if, in some regions, some of the stratum is not formed.

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Stratum