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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Distance from govt. hospital (B3_q24)
File: Block-3-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 692
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Distance from nearest government hospital / health centre etc.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than 0.5 km	137	19.8%
2	0.5 to 1 km	187	27.0%
3	1 to 2 km	168	24.3%
4	2 to 5 km	150	21.7%
5	5 km or more	50	7.2%

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.

Interviewer instructions

The distance from the nearest government hospital / health centre will be recorded in terms of codes. Distance from the nearest facility will be considered if the facility is available to the slum dwellers. The distance will be considered from the centre of the slum.