India - Village Facilities Survey , July 2002-December 2002, NSS 58th Round

Reference ID

IND-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch3.1-VF-2002

Year

2002

Country

India

Producer(s)

NSSO - Ministry of Statistics and PI, Government of India

Sponsor(s)

Ministry of Statiistics and PI - MOSPI, Government of India -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Sub-centre/Dispensary (Bl4_q16)
File: Village_facility

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 4640
Invalid: 0

Definition

Sub-centre/ Dispensary: A Sub-centre is the most peripheral contact point in the primary health care system. It covers around 5,000 persons in the plains and 3,000 in hilly/tribal areas. It is run by the Government and located in the rural area. It is manned by two multi-purpose health workers – one male and one female. A Sub-centre usually does not have facilities for treatment of the sick as in-patients. These centres are run by the Government. A Dispensary is the consulting place/ chamber which does not, generally, have facilities for treatment of the sick as in-patients.

Questions and instructions

Universe

Distance from nearest facility ?

Literal question

How far is facility from sub- centre / dispensary ?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	within village	1819	39.2%
2	outside village: less than 2 km	624	13.4%
3	2 to 5 km	1109	23.9%
4	5 to 10 km	635	13.7%
5	10 km or more	449	9.7%
9	NR	4	0.1%

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

distance should be coded as :
within village – 1; outside village: less than 2 km – 2, 2 to 5 km – 3,
5 to 10 km – 4, 10 km or more – 5