India - Land and Livestock Holdings Survey Visit 1, January -July 2013, NSS 70th Round

Start	End	Cycle
2013-01-01	2013-04-15	subround-1, Visit-1
2013-04-16	2013-07-31	subround-2, Visit-1
2013-08-01	2013-10-15	subround-1, Visit-2
2013-10-16	2013-12-31	subround-2, Visit-2

Face-to-face [f2f]
The 70th round (January 2013 - December 2013) of NSS is earmarked for surveys on land and livestock holdings, debt and investment and situation assessment survey of agricultural households. Each sample FSU is being visited twice during this round. Since the workload of the first visit (i.e. visit 1) is more, the first visit continues till the end of July 2013. Thus, period of the first visit is January - July 2013 and that of the second visit (i.e. visit 2) is August - December 2013.

The survey period of the round are divided into two sub-rounds. Sub-round one will consist of the first half of the survey period of each visit i.e. 1st Jan -15th April 2013 for visit 1 and 1st August - 15th October 2013 for visit 2 while sub-round two consists of the remaining period of the respective visits. Thus, each sub-round are three and a half months for visit 1 and two and a half months for visit 2.

Broad structure of the Schedule for collection of information in visit 1 and visit 2 are given below:

Block 0: descriptive identification of sample household
Block 1: identification of sample household
Block 2: particulars of field operation
Block 3: household characteristics (only in visit 1)
Block 4: demographic and other particulars of household members (only in visit 1)
Block 5: particulars of land of the household and its operation during July 2012 to December 2012/January 2013 to June 2013
Block 6: some general information of operational holdings for July 2012 to December 2012/January 2013 to June 2013
Block 7: livestock, poultry, duckery, etc., owned by the household as on the date of survey (only in visit 1)
Block 8: some general information of household operational holding for the whole agricultural year: July 2012- June 2013(only in visit 2)
Block 9: remarks by investigator
Block 10: Comments by supervisory officer(s)

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Field Operations Division of Naional Sample Survey Office	NSSO(FOD)	Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation