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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Primary health centre (Bl4_q17)
File: Village_facility

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 4643
Invalid: 0

Definition

Primary Health Centre: Primary health centre (PHC) is the first contact point between a village community and the medical officer. It has a medical officer and other para-medical staff. It is run by the Government and usually has in-patient and out-patient facilities. A PHC has jurisdiction over 6 sub-centres and serves about 30,000 people in the plains and 20,000 in hilly/ tribal areas.

Questions and instructions

Universe

Distance from nearest facility ?

Literal question

How far is facility from primary health centre

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	within village	908	19.6%
2	outside village: less than 2 km	460	9.9%
3	2 to 5 km	1222	26.3%
4	5 to 10 km	1102	23.7%
5	10 km or more	948	20.4%
9	NR	3	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