India - Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 2005 - June 2006, NSS 62nd Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62nd-Sch10-2005-06

Year

2005 - 2006

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)

Employment and Unemployment

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 25, 2019

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Type of ration card code (B3_q9)
File: Block-3-Household-Characteristics-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 58977
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For entry 1 in Item 8 type of ration card (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Antyodaya	1460	2.5%
2	BPL	15979	27.1%
3	APL	31113	52.8%
9	Others	10425	17.7%

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

Households which possess ration card, it is to be ascertained which of the three types of ration card viz. Antyodaya, BPL or APL is possessed by the household. The BPL (Below Poverty Line) ration card is issued to families which are living below the poverty line. The Antyodaya ration card is meant for the ultra-poor and may be issued to a family if it is considered to be sufficiently below the poverty line. The APL (Above Poverty Line) ration card is issued to families which are above the poverty line.