India - Survey on Morbidity and Health Care January - June 2004, NSS 60th Round

India Survey on Morbidity and Health Care January - June 2004

NSS 60th Round

Other Household Health Survey The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has carried out a series of comprehensive and nationwide surveys on social consumption during its 35th (1980 - 1981), 42nd (1986 - 1987) and 52 nd (1995 - 1996) rounds. The emphasis of the morbidity and health care survey in this round is on the collection of information on morbidity and utilization of health care services provided by the public and private sector, together with the expenditure incurred by the households for availing these services. The concepts, definitions and procedures used in the 52 nd round for the purpose of survey on utilisation of health services and problem of aged persons are to be followed in this round also. This Round is third in round series.

ID Number IND-NSSO-SMHC-2004-v1.0

In the Sixtieth round of NSS, data was collected through a survey on the subject of ‘Morbidity and Health Care’. Apart from this subject, surveys were also undertaken separately on ‘Household Consumer Expenditure’ and ‘Employment and Unemployment’. In the survey on Morbidity and Health Care, the following main aspects were covered:

(i) Morbidity and utilisation of health care services including immunisation and maternity care,

(ii) Problems of aged persons, and

(iii) Expenditure of the households for availing the health care services.

The object of the present survey was essentially to study the benefits derived by various sections of the population from investments and outlays made by the Government, as well as by the private sector in the fields of health and get an estimate of expenditure incurred by households to avail health care services including immunization and maternity care.

The data were collected from a sample of households by the interview method. A set of probing questions was put to as many individual members of a selected household as possible to ascertain whether they had suffered from any ailment during the reference period and whether they had taken any medical treatment for it. As far as possible, efforts were made to collect information relating to ailments of each household member from the member themselves. But in spite of the best efforts, some other person of the household might have provided this information, especially for the children and the aged persons in the household. Efforts were made to interview all the adult male members of each sample household, personally. For the children, particularly the young, attempts were made to get the required information from their mothers.

The enquiry on morbidity was conducted with a reference period of 15 days. All spells of ailment suffered by each member, both present as well as the deceased, of the sample household, during the 15 days preceding the date of enquiry, whether or not the patient was hospitalised for treatment, were covered in the survey. For hospitalised treatment, however, information was collected for every event of hospitalisation of a member, whether living or deceased at the time of survey, during the 365 days preceding the date of enquiry.

The schedule on morbidity and health care (Schedule 25.0) framed for the 60th round consists of 13 blocks.

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Labor Markets	World Bank	http://www.surveynetwork.org/toolkit

Employment, Unemployment, Indebtedness of rural labour, Usual principal activity, Usual subsidiary activity, Time disposition during the week, Migration National, State, Urban, Rural

All households

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Computer Centre	MOSPI, CC	M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation	Documentation of the study

2012-12-30 Version 1.0 (December 2012)

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